[He's glad that Jusis seems to understand the point of the story, though. It isn't to say that Hans Christian Andersen was a fucking liar, but more about the bonds between family not always being blood relatives.]
In the past, he had a vast network of people he had forged contracts with. To protect the harbor, and purify the land... but no longer.
[He stops near the pond, and looks out over it.]
I could never sever contact with Xiao. It is because of my unwillingness to abandon him that he has shown himself. Nor could I tell him the truth of what I was doing and who I was with, and so he stumbled unwittingly into the situation with the Spirit Vein. There is no turning back for either of us now—the danger cannot and will not be ignored.
I fear the son has inherited his father's problems.
[He looks at Jusis.]
... And so I turn to you. Xiao is precisely the kind of person they would recruit had they the means, but I cannot let that happen. To be plain: he exists outside of my contract with the Black Order, and because of his association with me, that could put him in danger.
I thought it better at the time to keep his existence hidden, since it had nothing to do with our negotiations. In the end I underestimated my own sentimentality.
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[He's glad that Jusis seems to understand the point of the story, though. It isn't to say that Hans Christian Andersen was a fucking liar, but more about the bonds between family not always being blood relatives.]
In the past, he had a vast network of people he had forged contracts with. To protect the harbor, and purify the land... but no longer.
[He stops near the pond, and looks out over it.]
I could never sever contact with Xiao. It is because of my unwillingness to abandon him that he has shown himself. Nor could I tell him the truth of what I was doing and who I was with, and so he stumbled unwittingly into the situation with the Spirit Vein. There is no turning back for either of us now—the danger cannot and will not be ignored.
I fear the son has inherited his father's problems.
[He looks at Jusis.]
... And so I turn to you. Xiao is precisely the kind of person they would recruit had they the means, but I cannot let that happen. To be plain: he exists outside of my contract with the Black Order, and because of his association with me, that could put him in danger.
I thought it better at the time to keep his existence hidden, since it had nothing to do with our negotiations. In the end I underestimated my own sentimentality.