[ Horrific is a good word for what was done to him, but there's too much pity attached to it to make him comfortable about mentioning it. He assumes Mingyu did it because he was afraid of him and how far he'd go if he thought his family was dead. That's what people do when they feel threatened.

There is a valid point to that. He can be dangerous all on his own, let alone when he's pushed like he has been. Wei Wuxian is different, but he's never known what it is that makes him that way. The Commission manipulated him, sometimes pretended to care, but he always knew where he stood. With him, he never has. ]

You're concerned. [ For how he is. Somehow those two things don't go together in a way he can resolve in his mind and he stews as he struggles with them. ] It's bad. I'm aware. I also can't risk removing it while we're on the verge of an apocalypse.

[ It would also be an inopportune time to lose his mind because of all of the suffering going on around them. That's exactly why Mingyu did what he did. There's a considerably long pause before he makes one concession. ]

...Once I was able to release what it'd collected. The shards from the broken mirror absorbed it when I went back for them in Taravast. If that's something you can replicate.