( the driest of looks here, and a slow lift of his eyebrow. )

He didn't mean us, Lao Five. He meant the entirety of the world. We're tools this world wishes to make use of, and we let Master Scorpion guide us enough, but most our worst damages were our own choices. Not anyone else's.

We need to be as prepared for when Anurr is left standing as we do for each deathless lord that hasn't been swallowed by an overreaching space cultivator.