By the time you figure out the rules I broke

"Yes, I am."

He looks and sounds tired, beneath his expression cracks of vulnerability. It's hardly a countenance befitting the new leader of the Qinghe Nie Sect and he knows just how pathetic he must look right now. He continues to stand there, eyes downcast, the nervous in air around him palpable.

But he still isn't running away.

"It'll be a couple of days by sword travel. The air might be a little chillier than what you're used to in Lotus Pier."