I don't know, Blade, I couldn't remember anything of what she looked like in Dan Feng's time in my life as Dan Heng. I didn't even know you were Yingxing until that woman told me.
[Though, even that feels like a flimsy excuse. Jingliu's words come to mind almost immediately, questioning whether he truly forgot and whether he's just using it as a shield.
Dan Heng crosses his arms. He's... not sure how to feel about it, honestly. He has a human and Vidyadhara perspective on this, and it makes those feelings complicated as he looks back on those memories, fragmented as they are. As much as he wants to be happy about possibly having a daughter... the circumstances of her birth, Dan Feng's fall, and how the Preceptors treated her in the years following....
And the fact that he found a way to reincarnate Baiheng....]
No, they aren't.
[He remembers Dan Feng's despair at having their people's population problem sit on his shoulders alone. The pressure placed on him finding a way to succeed in freeing them from the cycle of reincarnation, of keeping their purpose as the Permanence wished.... A shadow of that old anguish can be seen in his eyes.]
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[Though, even that feels like a flimsy excuse. Jingliu's words come to mind almost immediately, questioning whether he truly forgot and whether he's just using it as a shield.
Dan Heng crosses his arms. He's... not sure how to feel about it, honestly. He has a human and Vidyadhara perspective on this, and it makes those feelings complicated as he looks back on those memories, fragmented as they are. As much as he wants to be happy about possibly having a daughter... the circumstances of her birth, Dan Feng's fall, and how the Preceptors treated her in the years following....
And the fact that he found a way to reincarnate Baiheng....]
No, they aren't.
[He remembers Dan Feng's despair at having their people's population problem sit on his shoulders alone. The pressure placed on him finding a way to succeed in freeing them from the cycle of reincarnation, of keeping their purpose as the Permanence wished.... A shadow of that old anguish can be seen in his eyes.]