[ Hua Cheng keeps his gaze forward, for a long time, as if seeing through where the memory once stood in front of them. Where Soo-won once was. He lets out a low, soft noise, in response to her question in that voice, so different from the anger behind even her very first kick.
But so very much like that crying little girl, that seems like it wasn't even that long ago. ]
All of it. [ Gently, but honestly. ] My condolences.
[ For the loss, for the betrayal, for the lies being cast off from her life to reveal an ugly truth beneath. ]
We don't have to talk about it, Yona. So long as Soo-won is no threat to you here.
[Do they have to talk about it if he is a threat to her here?
Yona takes a breath.]
...he isn't. There's more at stake here than the things that are between the two of us, and he knows that. He's not the kind of person who would put us all at risk just because of a grudge he held against my father.
[...]
Besides, I don't think he remembers it. I didn't, either, until recently.
[ A long silence, to consider that. Hua Cheng might go to Soo-won to discuss theories, strategy, their innate curiosity about the worlds they've seen.
But Hua Cheng does not trust Soo-won implicitly. There is too much of him that is like the Heavens, for him to put full faith in him - even with Yona's certainty of where his focus lies. He believes it, of course. So many have set aside their norms for the sake of getting out of the Realm.
Still. ]
Funny, how the Realm does that sort of thing, isn't it.
...maybe it thought I needed to forget about it, for the sake of fixing the problems with the nova here.
[Or maybe it was just a coincidence or a deliberate choice by a very rude writer.]
But I'm not... it makes me angry, remembering what he did. Angry, and sad, and... a lot of things. But I know our first priority has to be getting out of this situation.
[ Even without more to go off of, there's the knowledge that there's more to this. But he doesn't press, because, well - what would be the point? She's already been made to lose the memory, then remember it again, then relive it. ]
So you're using your anger wisely. [ Because he won't ever judge her for that. ] Once we reach the end, whatever's left between the two of you... you can resolve it then.
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But so very much like that crying little girl, that seems like it wasn't even that long ago. ]
All of it. [ Gently, but honestly. ] My condolences.
[ For the loss, for the betrayal, for the lies being cast off from her life to reveal an ugly truth beneath. ]
We don't have to talk about it, Yona. So long as Soo-won is no threat to you here.
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Yona takes a breath.]
...he isn't. There's more at stake here than the things that are between the two of us, and he knows that. He's not the kind of person who would put us all at risk just because of a grudge he held against my father.
[...]
Besides, I don't think he remembers it. I didn't, either, until recently.
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But Hua Cheng does not trust Soo-won implicitly. There is too much of him that is like the Heavens, for him to put full faith in him - even with Yona's certainty of where his focus lies. He believes it, of course. So many have set aside their norms for the sake of getting out of the Realm.
Still. ]
Funny, how the Realm does that sort of thing, isn't it.
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[Or maybe it was just a coincidence
or a deliberate choice by a very rude writer.]But I'm not... it makes me angry, remembering what he did. Angry, and sad, and... a lot of things. But I know our first priority has to be getting out of this situation.
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So you're using your anger wisely. [ Because he won't ever judge her for that. ] Once we reach the end, whatever's left between the two of you... you can resolve it then.
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[That's putting it mildly, but it's fine.]
...I don't know what I'll do once this is over. I thought, once, that I wanted to kill him... but now I'm not so sure.