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What good things have happened since you've come here?


[Please tell him there are some good things]

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[bearshermark]

A reminder that things are not so bleak as they seem. That despite everything, there are some good things happening. Things to take heart and have faith in.

[downswing]

You share Wei Ying's absent memory.

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Then maybe I'll write everything down to be sure.

[downswing]

If your heart does not already know, fault is not with the cinnabar.

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[The what about cinnamon]

It seems my heart is an unsteady thing.

[downswing]

( Cinnabar, peasant! )

Balance it.

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[The what]

I'm trying to.

[downswing]

'Yet'?

[bearshermark]

Guilt and uncertainty aren't so simply countered.

[downswing]

What guilt harnesses a child?

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[A very long pause]

I only wish I were so incapable of failure as you believe.

[downswing]

You are far from incapable.

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Thank you.

[downswing]

Of failure.

( A few moments after: ) It is the way of men.

[bearshermark]

So it is.

[downswing]

You begrudge it.

[bearshermark]

I thought to. Certainly, I'd prefer not to be so lacking, but were I to wish to never fail, I don't know what sort of person that would be. I've already found that great wisdom doesn't suit me.

[downswing]

You are prone to impulse.

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[Well]

A step down from reckless, I think.

[downswing]

You may choose to be a better man.

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Do you never falter?

[downswing]

Not today.