Everyday means everyday: Untamed fanfiction

Chapter 19: Worries

Sizhui paces impatiently around his friend.

"Sizhui, will you sit down? You're making me dizzy," Jingyi complains.

"Why are they taking so long? I don't see why I can't be at the meeting!" Sizhui protests. He throws up his hand in frustration.

"Well clearly, it's a clan leader meeting only," Jingyi points out.

"How much will Jin Ling tell us? What if he's not allowed to disclose all the details?" Sizhui bit his lip nervously. "I think Senior Wei won't let him tell us everything in case we're put in danger...or if we worry too much." Jingyi crosses his arms.

"That's ridiculous. We went through so much already. Besides, we're not small children anymore!"
"But you are still young," Jingyi swings around, startled to see his clan leader standing a few feet away from him.

"Zewu-jun," Jingyi and Sizhui greet him.

"We will, however, fill you in on the details that you need to know."

"Wei Ying," Lan Wangji calls after Wei WuXian as he comes out from the Hangshi, but he disappears around the corner of one of the buildings. Lan Wangji watches with a sad and worried expression.

"Where's Senior Wei going?" Jingyi asks. Lan Xichen is silent and Jiang Cheng didn't say anything as he came over to stand beside. Jin Ling looks as if he wanted to run after his uncle but Jiang Cheng holds him back with one arm.

"Leave him be. I'll talk to him later," Jiang Cheng tells him sternly, but Jin Ling doesn't miss the worried look in his eyes.

"It's not his fault...this was happening even before he came to live at Cloud Recesses." Jin Ling says, his voice sad.

"The world is unforgiving to him. He's been used as a scapegoat too many times." Lan Xichen says in a soft voice. "They're using him to elevate their plan."

"That'd probably make him feel worse," Zizhen murmurs. Sizhui looks away. All Sizhui wanted right now was for all this to be over soon and he could be happy with both his fathers and enjoy night-hunting with them as well as his friends. And he would be able to get closer to Jin Ling as well.

"Let's not get too worried now. We already figured out what the enemy is capable of. How we're going to combat them will be saved for another day."

"Clan Leader Jiang, a letter came for you," A Lan cultivator hurries up to him with a letter in his hand. . Jiang Cheng accepts the letter and opens it to read the content.

"Strange activity has been detected in the Burial Mounds. No fierce corpses, but only wolves guarding the entrance to something hidden behind a wall of black smoke or fog." Jiang Cheng reads outloud.

"The Burial Mounds again?" Jingyi groans. "We'll have to go back there, don't we?"

"It seems like we always keep getting pulled there," Jiang Cheng murmurs.

"The Burial Mounds is full of resentful energy and anything as a medium for it. Now we know they really are Demonic Cultivators. We should find Young Master Wei as soon as possible."

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Jiang Cheng walks around Cloud Recesses, looking for his brother. Lan Wangji had had an errand to run for his uncle but the look they had exchanged earlier in the Hanshi meant only one thing.

"Jiang Cheng, I'll join you," He perks up hearing Xichen's voice.

"I can't believe I said that. I didn't know what I was thinking," Jiang Cheng shakes his head.