"Tea," Laurence says, grasping onto this one safe topic. "Thank you."
The extraordinary animal bows and scurries off, and Laurence considers Lan Wangji's words carefully before selecting his own. "Truthfully, I am not wholly familiar with the history of dragons in China," he says. "They have fiercely guarded the secrets of their dragons and breeding from the rest of the world. It may be as you say, though from what I have observed, dragons in China are respected and treated more as equals than as beings of any particular spiritual power. The Imperials and Celestials are a class above the rest, I grant you, intimately connected as they are with the Emperor and his family and court."
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Date: 2021-11-17 08:05 pm (UTC)The extraordinary animal bows and scurries off, and Laurence considers Lan Wangji's words carefully before selecting his own. "Truthfully, I am not wholly familiar with the history of dragons in China," he says. "They have fiercely guarded the secrets of their dragons and breeding from the rest of the world. It may be as you say, though from what I have observed, dragons in China are respected and treated more as equals than as beings of any particular spiritual power. The Imperials and Celestials are a class above the rest, I grant you, intimately connected as they are with the Emperor and his family and court."