Utterly downplaying how devastated he'd been at the time, of course. Wei Wuxian doesn't need to know.
One of the women in the crowd bumps into Xue Yang just then, of course, but instead of lashing out as he once would have, he immediately turns to steady her with a laugh and helps her back to her partner so they can return to the silly dancing going on.
The barrage of questions doesn't surprise him, and once he turns his attention back to the other cultivator, he sobers a bit. "No one is under my control. I gave Daozhang Xingchen my Stygian Tiger Seal...just after we all got here. He put it somewhere and I haven't gone looking. He doesn't even remember now. Like you, he vanished, then came back and doesn't remember the first time here.
"He and Daozhang Song are alive and free. We live together and they have been teaching me how to quiet the chaos."
His lips twitch and he takes a drink from his bottle. "You don't have to trust me. I don't care. Just don't make trouble for my Daozhangs. They are the ones who deserve to decide if I live or die."
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One of the women in the crowd bumps into Xue Yang just then, of course, but instead of lashing out as he once would have, he immediately turns to steady her with a laugh and helps her back to her partner so they can return to the silly dancing going on.
The barrage of questions doesn't surprise him, and once he turns his attention back to the other cultivator, he sobers a bit. "No one is under my control. I gave Daozhang Xingchen my Stygian Tiger Seal...just after we all got here. He put it somewhere and I haven't gone looking. He doesn't even remember now. Like you, he vanished, then came back and doesn't remember the first time here.
"He and Daozhang Song are alive and free. We live together and they have been teaching me how to quiet the chaos."
His lips twitch and he takes a drink from his bottle. "You don't have to trust me. I don't care. Just don't make trouble for my Daozhangs. They are the ones who deserve to decide if I live or die."