Archive of Our Own

Summary:

“The rock,” Jingyi says, voice very very unstable. “Hit the rock, shixiong, fuck, no time to break the wards, hit the rock —”

The Killing Chord strikes Jingyi’s appointed boulder. It cracks that in half, too.

Not half a second after Lan Yuan follows Jingyi into the crevice, the yaoguai strikes the stone, talons scrabbling at the crevice, beak pecking at the entrance they’ve made themselves. A red, furious, glowing eye peers in after them, and Lan Yuan stumbles back blindly, vaguely downwards. He’s staring at the entrance, at the clear and present danger. Neither of them are looking backward.

In hindsight, it’s the worst mistake they make all day.

 

Wei Ying has spent years sealed under a mountain. It's just his luck that the kids who break him out of it are Lans.

Podfic of hollow moon by vxmins.