Energized by the hunt, the same as one who breathes fresh air after weeks indoors, he keeps up his chatter all the way back to the inn. It was only two ghosts -- not nearly enough for his good cheer to be tinged with exhaustion as it is -- but, he tells himself, it was the first proper night hunt he's done in some time.
(He had almost forgotten how good it feels to hunt alongside Lan Zhan, as they did before --
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Energized by the hunt, the same as one who breathes fresh air after weeks indoors, he keeps up his chatter all the way back to the inn. It was only two ghosts -- not nearly enough for his good cheer to be tinged with exhaustion as it is -- but, he tells himself, it was the first proper night hunt he's done in some time.
(He had almost forgotten how good it feels to hunt alongside Lan Zhan, as they did before --
Before.)