[There is honestly very little in this wholeass world that manages to visibly startle Wei Wuxian, but glancing down and seeing familiar chains attached to a familiar body that he hasn't seen looking so alive in years sure is one of them! It's a thought rather than spoken words that will ring out first - Wen Ning? - in open and unguarded shock.
In the next second he's darting forward, reaching a hand out to set delicately on Wen Ning's shoulder. If he wasn't still clearly in the chains and clothing he'd been wearing long after his death, he would be worried that this is a Wen Ning from a time far before his own. In a place like this, it wouldn't be outside the bounds of possibilities, after all.]
Wen Ning—? Wen Ning, look at me, let me see your face--
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In the next second he's darting forward, reaching a hand out to set delicately on Wen Ning's shoulder. If he wasn't still clearly in the chains and clothing he'd been wearing long after his death, he would be worried that this is a Wen Ning from a time far before his own. In a place like this, it wouldn't be outside the bounds of possibilities, after all.]
Wen Ning—? Wen Ning, look at me, let me see your face--
[HIS POSSIBLY VERY ALIVE FACE??]