[he stares after him another moment, still flabbergasted, then remembers he can't waste any more time here and hightails it as far onward as he can, before finally half-collapsing deeper into the city and getting found by some other people...

at some indeterminate point after all that, though, he is absolutely going to skulk back to check on the area again, and see if Lan Wangji took another shift there, and check that the Kappa didn't taze him and throw him in the river.

he paces around and tells himself not to do it, that it's a stupid move, that he still doesn't owe him anything, but eventually he finds himself heading over there anyway.]