[ he watches her, watches the spiders, arranges some of the puzzle pieces in his mind that form the picture of gwen; and he nearly laughs, humourless though it'd be, because like seems to attract like. wei wuxian would have done the same as she, easy as breathing.

but he thinks pointing out she seems to be just as self-sacrificing and lacking on self-esteem as he is would not go over well... and moreover, they're not here to talk about her. ]

You're exactly the right person, [ he says then, quiet and sharp and painfully calm, ] because you want to.

[ in the end, that's all it comes down to: wanting to be there for him, and — ] And because you do it. He isn't used to those he cares about standing by his side. He doesn't know what to do when someone isn't giving up on him.