[Wuxian doesn't look at him while he talks, but when he tells him that he didn't have to kill those men his head turns to look at him, brows furrowed sharply. Swallowing uncomfortably as he listens it's not easy to hear what his friend tells him. About Wen Ning and his fate about the men who'd done it begging for their lives after what they'd done.
Not just to Ning, but to the other Wen civilians. A part of him is upset of course, needless killing or being the one to judge if someone deserves to die or not... it was as slippery slope. Yet at the same time Wuxian says that they would have killed those villagers and he knows it's probably true. They were a liability. They were proof of what they'd done. Not that the Jin sect cared, not that... anyone seemed to care. Or more cared enough to stand up to Jin Guangshan and rock the boat at all.
Anyone but Wei Wuxian.]
You're right.
[Huaisang says after some silence, in which he had to consider what to say, if he should say anything at all. He'll push himself up then to sit again, looking sadly down at his hands in his lap.]
Jin-xiandu is keen to get your Stygian Tiger Amulet and clean up "the mess" you've made of things.
[The mess being the Wen villagers and their little home in the Burial Mounds. He'll worry at his lip with his teeth and fusses at his bangs just to have something to do with his hands.]
... no one thinks I listen when da-ge brings me along to Carp Tower, but I do.
[And he sighs, turning just enough to look at Wuxian now.]
Maybe it was wrong of you to kill those men, but what they did was wrong too and it's not okay that you couldn't help Wen Ning or Wen Qing without being seen as evil.
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Not just to Ning, but to the other Wen civilians. A part of him is upset of course, needless killing or being the one to judge if someone deserves to die or not... it was as slippery slope. Yet at the same time Wuxian says that they would have killed those villagers and he knows it's probably true. They were a liability. They were proof of what they'd done. Not that the Jin sect cared, not that... anyone seemed to care. Or more cared enough to stand up to Jin Guangshan and rock the boat at all.
Anyone but Wei Wuxian.]
You're right.
[Huaisang says after some silence, in which he had to consider what to say, if he should say anything at all. He'll push himself up then to sit again, looking sadly down at his hands in his lap.]
Jin-xiandu is keen to get your Stygian Tiger Amulet and clean up "the mess" you've made of things.
[The mess being the Wen villagers and their little home in the Burial Mounds. He'll worry at his lip with his teeth and fusses at his bangs just to have something to do with his hands.]
... no one thinks I listen when da-ge brings me along to Carp Tower, but I do.
[And he sighs, turning just enough to look at Wuxian now.]
Maybe it was wrong of you to kill those men, but what they did was wrong too and it's not okay that you couldn't help Wen Ning or Wen Qing without being seen as evil.