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[yueshen]

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[yueshen]

[ would you like some evidence? can you believe the protagonist treatment you're getting now ]

Well. You have organized us and helped to lead the charge in many different areas. You said that this job is like yours, but, yours is far more organized, and these trials themselves are quite difficult as they are, so I imagine to do them on the daily and be successful at them means you must be very intelligent.

Those all seem like very good qualities to emulate, to me.

[winebar]

[Evidence is everything. And he cannot believe it.]

I feel you are oversimplifying things, but... I suppose. I have just been acting because I feel that someone has to. I am sure there are others out there who would have been more effective than me.

[yueshen]

...Someone said the same thing to me earlier, about something a little different.

[ xie lian smiles up at him, though. ] Maybe there are, but, you are the one who has been acting. And that matters. Doesn't it?

[winebar]

I suppose there is something to be said for it.
[Hmph.]

... Do you have any siblings, your highness?

[yueshen]

[ he shakes his head. ]

I don't, no. I suppose Qi Rong and I were raised close to each other, but... [

we. all see how that went. ]

Why do you ask?

[winebar]

Well, having one, you do have someone else to compare yourself to from the day you are born.

[yueshen]

[ oh... his brows knit, immediately, expression compassionate. ]

Elder or younger...?

[winebar]

Elder. Though it occurred to me the other day that I am now the age he was when he died, ten years ago.

[yueshen]

I'm sorry for your loss. [ ten years ago or otherwise - the sympathy is still important. ]

What was he like, if I may ask?

[winebar]

... He was a paragon of justice. A light shining on the darkness of London, dedicated to his work and his family. He was the sort of man people felt drawn to, always ready with a smile and a joke. I owe so much of who I am to him.