tw: sexual content
That night they sleep on the same bed, as they had been doing at the Prince's palace. Lan Tian falls asleep as soon as his head touches the pillow, exhausted from the grueling day.
Wu Yun takes far longer. He lays on his back staring at the ceiling, and contemplating how he never thought he would see this room again, and that now that he's here everything is different. Tomorrow he'll be leaving to somewhere uncertain, and who knows what will happen there? In the meantime, he isn't any closer to returning to his original shape, or learning how to kill the Jade Emperor.
He never questioned it before, but he wonders now: why does he have such a bone-deep certainty that he must kill the Jade Emperor? Is this something that just happens, to all nine-tailed foxes? A life quest they must fulfill? If that's the case, couldn't his be easier?
