Snuggle <3

Lan Zhan is so so so holdable. 

They cuddle so gently.

Lan Zhan shivers slightly against Wei Ying; energy must be spent on sealing her wounds, still bleeding thickly beneath their makeshift bandages, and not on keeping warm. She is woozy and in pain. Contentment still somehow warms her heart.

Lan Zhan may not have energy to spare on keeping warm, but Wei Ying does. 

When Lan Zhan's clothes are dry enough to do more good than harm, Wei Ying drapes them around the two of them, keeping the heat in. 

It’s getting late. Lan Zhan sags against her, semi conscious and cozy under the dry robes.

Wei Ying pets her softly until she too succumbs to sleep. 

When Lan Zhan wakes, they are... still hurt and trapped and starving in an underground cave, which isn't great. The fire has gone out. Lan Zhan closes her eyes again and huddles closer to Wei Ying.

Wei Ying sighs contentedly and snuggles into Lan Zhan in her sleep. 

She doesn't hurry to wake her. There isn't anything for either of them to do in this cave, really, awake or asleep.

Wei Ying slowly opens her eyes a while later, visibly reorienting herself with respect to time and location until her eyes land on Lan Zhan and she smiles. 

Eeeeeeeee. "Wei Ying."

"Lan Zhan." <3

Happy shiver. "I didn't dream you."

"Would it have been a good dream, if you had?" she teases.

"Yes."

Snuggle. "Good."

...Her smile fades. "Too bad about that stupid monster."

"Could it be the one Lan Yi spoke of?"

"Hm?"

"Xue Chonghai created a monster. His Snake-Tortoise of Slaughter."
 

"You know, I am really coming to hate that guy almost as much as I hate Wen Chao."

Yeah.

She snuggles Lan Zhan quietly for a few minutes and then picks up a stick and starts doing figures in the dirt to see how long it's likely to take before rescue arrives. She arrives at a number she doesn't like and makes a face at it. 

Her own sect certainly isn't in a state to send aid. Lan Zhan doesn't need to follow Wei Ying's numbers to feel pessimistic. 

"I don't think anyone is going to make it back soon enough. I think we have to at least try to get out of here on our own."

Lan Zhan doesn't have much confidence in her ability to walk at the moment, let alone a more strenuous escape, but getting Wei Ying out of here is very important. "Could we create a larger diversion on our own to get past the beast?"

"I don't know...if we were both in the water and the distraction failed, it could be pretty bad."