The Panda Has No Face

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Avelreese had been staring at the page for ten minutes.

The pandaren’s face was proving difficult. Round, warm-eyed, the kind of settled that came from something deeper than sleep — she could still see him clearly enough. Every brushstroke came out too precise, too architectural. She was filing a report, not drawing a person.

She wrote the characters underneath the half-finished sketch instead:

物来顺应。未来不迎。当时不杂。既过不恋。

He’d said it on a monastery step, during that expedition she’d spent her whole young self worrying through. She’d been cataloguing catastrophes when she’d nearly missed him entirely — broad shape in afternoon light, eating a peach, completely unbothered by the entire world.

Pandaria on Reyneese on WoW

The Panda Has No Face