Title: under brilliant stars
Fandom: The Double (cdrama)
Length: 100 words
Challenge: Brilliant
Content notes: post-series

Summary: Fangfei and her ghosts.



Some winter nights, Fangfei can’t sleep. The chill air fills her lungs with the phantom scent of mud and mountain trees, and she cannot bear to close her eyes.

She goes instead to the courtyard and watches her ghosts flutter like moths in the moonlight. Jiang Li, with her soft eyes and strong heart. Tong’er, unwavering as an oak tree. Some nights, even Eldest Princess joins the haunting, dancing with blood-soaked hands. A dizi sings in the distance.

Xiao Heng doesn’t scold her. He wraps her in his arms, his cloak enveloping them both, and anchors her until dawn comes.