[ Her smile fades for a moment. "Kills all conversation"... as in he has a reputation of some sort? Chu Wanning had mentioned something to that effect, before, but...
To her, it doesn't make much sense. Aren't cultivators-- esteemed? Or important? ] ...Now, why would that happen? He has a fairly high position in his world, doesn't he?
[...did he say that? Is it because he's a sect elder...?
He looks confused for half a second before he decides it doesn't matter.]
He is...well known, I suppose. [Understatement of the century because who hadn't heard of the Beidou Immortal? But he...doesn't really like his fame so...] But he's feared and respected...possibly more feared than anything else. He has...a reputation for having a terrible temper and being cold.
I see... [ Aha, she thinks to herself. That will do it. Mythra had the same issue five hundred years ago, but then again-- Mythra did not care if others did not want to associate with her. In a way, she had purposefully been brusque just to push others away, and that had been a true and tried tactic. ]
Has something changed, then, that a cold someone with a temper... would give a near-stranger a gift? [ She jests lightly; a hypothetical question, really. ]
I think he's had that warmth within him this entire time... and I'm glad that it's coming out now. I'm glad that-- [ A pause. ] ...I'm honored, that he has shared that warmth with me.
[ She smiles. ] Will you tell him that, little one?
[He didn't answer her, because the truth was...he's always been this sort of person. But he'd hidden it because the possibility of rejection terrified him. Because he didn't think he was the sort of person people wanted to be close to. Besides, it was a rhetorical question, probably.]
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But he can't help but blush a little.]
Ridiculous...we're the lucky ones.
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Hm. ] You say that as if having friends is uncommon for you two.
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Rather than uncommon, where he's from he probably only has one friend.]
...where we're from he has a reputation. It's natural that a person who kill all conversation when he walks in to not have many friends, isn't it?
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To her, it doesn't make much sense. Aren't cultivators-- esteemed? Or important? ] ...Now, why would that happen? He has a fairly high position in his world, doesn't he?
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He looks confused for half a second before he decides it doesn't matter.]
He is...well known, I suppose. [Understatement of the century because who hadn't heard of the Beidou Immortal? But he...doesn't really like his fame so...] But he's feared and respected...possibly more feared than anything else. He has...a reputation for having a terrible temper and being cold.
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Has something changed, then, that a cold someone with a temper... would give a near-stranger a gift? [ She jests lightly; a hypothetical question, really. ]
I think he's had that warmth within him this entire time... and I'm glad that it's coming out now. I'm glad that-- [ A pause. ] ...I'm honored, that he has shared that warmth with me.
[ She smiles. ] Will you tell him that, little one?
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...you were the one who shared that warmth first.
[He cleared his throat.]
I will let him know.