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[xue_yang]

Do you have something to say to me? Leave it here and I might get back to you.

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[shuanghuas]

[ his voice is tense, unhappy. ]

Xue Yang.

[xue_yang]

[he should have seen this coming..how hard is it going to be to act like his normal self.]

Well, well..to what do I owe this honor of you contacting me?

[shuanghuas]

Meng Yao seemed insistent at one point that we spoke. I do not wish to speak with you but - [ ...well, they're both here, right? ] what is the price for your behaving now?

[xue_yang]

The price? I'm not sure I understand. I believe I've been behaving quite well.

[shuanghuas]

That's my whole point, you've been here and caused no trouble. Why?

[xue_yang]

Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean I haven't caused it.

Maybe I just feel like I get to enjoy a little down time. No one is asking me to take out anyone right now.

[shuanghuas]

You're a skilled liar, but I still wished to ask you directly in the hopes you might be honest.

You don't need anyone asking you -[ he sounds agitated ] Baixue was not something you were ordered to do.

[xue_yang]

That's true. But I was younger and not as wise as I am now.

[shuanghuas]

How old are you?

[xue_yang]

I used to be younger then you, now I am older then you. The number doesn't matter.

[shuanghuas]

Makes you all the more dangerous.

[xue_yang]

And yet I haven't bothered you at all. That should say something.

[shuanghuas]

It does. What are you planning?

[xue_yang]

Can a person really not change? Are you so bent on my guilt? What a shame.

[slices like a knife...]

[shuanghuas]

A person can change but a person must show signs of it before expecting trust.

You are guilty of crimes back home.

[xue_yang]

But none here. I have broken no laws. I'm working as I am supposed to. I have been here a long time and yet not once have you noticed my presence. A change has happened and is proven by the lack of evidence otherwise.

[shuanghuas]

You're clever. You're sly. Hiding crimes is not beyond your ability but you do not need to convince me, I have no intentions of stalking your shadow.

[xue_yang]

I'm glad you think I am worthy of such praise, Daozhang.

[shuanghuas]

It is not praise nor insult.

If you truly changed then there is no reason for me to, correct?

[xue_yang]

Perhaps you are the one that really needs to change. If you can't believe someone like me can behave then you might be more closed-minded then you think.

[shuanghuas]

After what you did to Song daozhang, it will take more than words and a few months of no incidents to convince me of the possibility of change. I believe you've changed enough for me not to linger in your shadow.

[xue_yang]

I imagine there is nothing I can do to convince you completely with that event lingering over you.

[shuanghuas]

What did you think would happened after you killed the innocents at Baixue and blinded Song Zichen? It is not my forgiveness you need, but his.

But I am willing to not get in your way here as long as you're committing no crime. I will not linger in your shadow, I will not raise my sword to you.

[xue_yang]

He isn't exactly here to give it. What a shame.

[shuanghuas]

[ that hurts, even if he does not think xue yang said those words with the intention to do so. ]

He was.