maximusboltagon:

the heart of perfect wisdom,  ~11.4k words, william laurence/tenzing tharkay.

Laurence sees Tharkay for the first time since the end of the war at a crowded port in Macao, on a stifling summer afternoon nearly indistinguishable from the day they met in the very same city, more than a decade ago. 

this is for @kiransingh, because of course it is, and it took so long that it’s now a christmas present. MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS KIRAN.