[It's not an incorrect observation... Sometimes you have braincells and all they do is come up with curses and then self-sabotage when common sense tries to join the party.
ANYWAY.]
Kind of you. [With a quirking little grin. He leans forward a little then, resting his folded arms against his knees instead of over his chest.]
As for me - I've said my memory isn't the best, and it isn't! The only thing I know about my parents is that they died in a nighthunt. A friend of my father's took me in - that Uncle Jiang. What you saw there was the start of a sect's attempt to take over the cultivation world. They had the power and number to do it - wiped out our sect overnight, which was unheard of before then. The ones on the platform were the second son of that sect's leader, his mistress and his bodyguard. Never got along well with any of them! They were quite tyrannical, enjoyed bullying the weak and sent out the order to kill countless people for reasons as foolish as "they shot an arrow at the wrong type of kite". I made sure they suffered for the misery they brought.
[STATED SO SIMPLY. Well. She already knows he's capable of bloodshed and violence, so he doesn't bother hiding that... She knew even before seeing his memories, from back when they had lived parallel lives in a town worlds away. A bit more quietly, as if tempered by memories of that time:]
I've never been able to tolerate people like that. What I did in Montevallo would be considered kind by comparison, I think.
[He was more in control of himself then, after all, even with his wicked temper and vengeful streak.]
no subject
ANYWAY.]
Kind of you. [With a quirking little grin. He leans forward a little then, resting his folded arms against his knees instead of over his chest.]
As for me - I've said my memory isn't the best, and it isn't! The only thing I know about my parents is that they died in a nighthunt. A friend of my father's took me in - that Uncle Jiang. What you saw there was the start of a sect's attempt to take over the cultivation world. They had the power and number to do it - wiped out our sect overnight, which was unheard of before then. The ones on the platform were the second son of that sect's leader, his mistress and his bodyguard. Never got along well with any of them! They were quite tyrannical, enjoyed bullying the weak and sent out the order to kill countless people for reasons as foolish as "they shot an arrow at the wrong type of kite". I made sure they suffered for the misery they brought.
[STATED SO SIMPLY. Well. She already knows he's capable of bloodshed and violence, so he doesn't bother hiding that... She knew even before seeing his memories, from back when they had lived parallel lives in a town worlds away. A bit more quietly, as if tempered by memories of that time:]
I've never been able to tolerate people like that. What I did in Montevallo would be considered kind by comparison, I think.
[He was more in control of himself then, after all, even with his wicked temper and vengeful streak.]