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[threedontknows]

[The look that crosses Huaisang's face is genuine -- he hates Jin Guangyao with every fiber of his being.]

He killed my brother.

[creeksidealtarboy]

[Aaron looks from the fan to Huaisang's eyes, searching his expression.]

Oh.

I - I'm sorry. You shouldn't have to see his face.

[threedontknows]

[He agrees, very much so. He shouldn't have to look at the man he killed and entombed, but yet, here they both were.]

I'll make the best of it. [He sits back and closes his fan again.] It's clear to me now that we're not done with each other. You should stay far away from him though. I don't need more reason to loathe him.

[creeksidealtarboy]

[Aaron closes his book.]

He don't - don't know me though.

[Aaron is willing to test the limits of the goodwill he's garnered in his time here.]

Was you close to - to your brother?

[threedontknows]

[Huaisang taps his fan against his leg, looking up at the ceiling.]

He raised me after our father died. He protected me, took care of me. [Indulged him, before he began to fall ill.] He was all I had, and Jin Guangyao took him away from me.

My brother...[How to describe it to someone outside the cultivation world?] There's a sickness in my family, inherited from our ancestors. Da-ge knew he was dying slowly, that he was going to die, but we were going to find a way to stop it. The two of us were going to find a way to stop the Nie curse, but Jin Guangyao poisoned him, made the death quicker and crueler.

[He inhales, breath shaky.]

He died right in front of me. He barely even knew who I was in the end. Then Jin Guangyao stole his body.

[creeksidealtarboy]

[Fucking hell. There's a lot that Aaron doesn't know about Huaisang's world, but he can tell the intention behind it. The cruelty of it.]

Stole - stole his body?

[threedontknows]

[He nods, trying to keep himself from outright snarling.]

He wanted to raise him from the dead and have him do his bidding. My brother's resentful energy proved to be too much to control, and so he dismembered him and scattered his pieces to the wind.

[creeksidealtarboy]

[He narrows his eyes just briefly, watching his face. The anger is clear there, Aaron can see it.]

I'm sorry.

Did you - you do something about it?

[threedontknows]

[A nod.]

That's why he's here.

[creeksidealtarboy]

[Aaron pauses, looking up at him through lowered eyes.]

Is that - that why you're here?

[threedontknows]

[He freezes, twirling the fan a little, looking just a tad guilty.

And then he grins.]

[creeksidealtarboy]

[A bruef hesitation, then Aaron laughs, softly and gently staccato with only a hint of malice.]

Good.

[Innocent eyes again.]

I - I started on another book.

[He holds it up, revealing one of the others Huaisang gave him.]

[threedontknows]

[If Huaisang saw the slight change in Aaron, he doesn't say a single thing about it. And he won't, at least not yet. His smile eases and he moves a little closer to Aaron.]

Do you like that one so far?

[creeksidealtarboy]

Yes, yes I do. I was - was worried because it started slow but - but I like it a lot.

[He opens the book and pushes it closer to him so he can see what the page says.]

[threedontknows]

[He leans over to look at the picture. A handsome warrior, who kind of looks like his brother a bit, fighting a fierce-looking monster.]

Oh, just wait until he finds out his martial brother betrayed him!

[creeksidealtarboy]

[He gasps, elbowing his friend in the ribs.]

You aren't - aren't supposed to tell me the ending!

[threedontknows]

[He makes a little 'oof' sound.]

Hey! Hey! That's not the ending, that's just something that happens!

[creeksidealtarboy]

[Aaron shakes his head.]

Now what's- what's the point?

[threedontknows]

No, no, you have to finish the book! Trust me, it's worth it! I know about these things.

[creeksidealtarboy]

[Aaron gives him a skeptical look, but he tries to believe him.]

Do you want - want me to find you another book I- I like? You can read with - with me.

[threedontknows]

[Huaisang looks thrilled at the suggestion. He nods enthusiastically.]

Yes, please, I'd like that very much!