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[thesuspense]

Did any good come from your parents?

[Perhaps that seems like a personal question. He does not care.]

What's the point of family?

[Now, this may seem cynical, and it possibly is, but he doesn't really sound it. He doesn't seem bitter, he smiled a little, then looks to a point off-screen.]

See, daozhang? I'm trying.

[A pause, then he corrects himself with a wave of one hand.]

Hear.

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[thesuspense]

...

[For a few moments, Xue Yang just looks at him through the screen, considering what he means and then considering what to answer.

In theory, he's asking these questions because he is supposed to really get in touch with things he's never felt, but--]

I don't know, didi, how close to me do you feel? [Suddenly there is a smile, a sweet one, and he leans forward.] Have I been a good brother? Are you going to give Yang-ge anything? I'm being good.

[chosenbylight]

[Oh, well. That is... Maybe not the reaction that Anduin had anticipated.

Is this role-playing? Is he being serious? Anduin is far too honest a person for anyone to just spring this sort of thing on him out of the blue.]

Oh. Well. I, uh.

[He takes a minute to recover himself and try and redirect the conversation in some way.] I have never had a brother before we arrived here in Ke-Waihu. Nor any other siblings. It is an entirely new experience for me.

[thesuspense]

You're doing so well with it though, didi. Don't worry.

[Such brotherly encouragement. His smile hasn't shifted and he is amused by the stuttering, but just brushes past it anyway.]

Do you have candy?

[chosenbylight]

[Uhhh. Does he look like he is someone who would have candy?

Was that an honest compliment? This person is very confusing.]

Do you like candy?

[thesuspense]

Candy, pastries, most anything sweet, if it's sweet enough.

[And he doesn't really have much hope of getting any here - he misses the city for that reason - but Anduin is young and he feels it's worth asking. It seems more pertinent than his original query, anyway.]

Don't you like it? If you don't like candy, didi, just give it to me whenever you get any.

[chosenbylight]

[This...person is older than Anduin himself, is he not? Because Anduin suddenly feels as though he is talking to a child.]

If anything like that comes up here in the village, I will certainly bring it back to the house for you, then!

[He promises! He's more of a dumplings kind of guy himself, he is living on Cloud 9 here.]