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You are less reckless than most. [ It's about as complimentary as she's going to get. ] It remains a problem with the entire group.

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You mother them.

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Is that a problem?

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Will each of their wounds ache you?

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Not physically. [ Though that is easier to handle. ] It will be no worse than the wounds I witnessed in my family.

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...Wen Qionglin. You know his fate.

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That he lives? [ For a certain definition of "alive." ] Yes.

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Freely. ( A pause, then the shadows of laughter: ) Wei Ying intends to barter him a bride.

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Wei Wuxian, playing matchmaker? Has he improved any?

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In complaints sooner than success.

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He enjoys it though.

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He enjoys domesticity. Kindness. As do you.

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We were content in the Burial Mounds.

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You were not.

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[ okay so he's very correct; they really weren't. ]

We found some small happiness in those last days. The time with family made it tolerable.

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Did you live in wait of death?

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I could forget what waited for us at times. But even when I could not escape the press of death, how could I not enjoy the time with my family?

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...you did not learn kindness in Wen Ruohan's court.

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Do you think kindness was a possibility there? He was mad long before the war.

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We did not know the man. Only his reputation.

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Some men do not need to be known.

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Yet they haunt thereafter.