[When Dan Heng's guise drops... where before their faces had been the main parallel between them, aside from the horns and tail... well, the resemblance is far more striking this way.

All of this sits as a weight in his chest, but Dan Feng still maintains eye contact with Dan Heng. It was interesting, in its own way, to hear someone actually say the choices he'd made were anything other than the greatest of evils... to hear someone say it wasn't his fault. And in truth, the plans of the preceptors weren't his fault. It wouldn't likely do much for the guilt yet, but there was progress to be made here.

For a connection such as theirs... there's quite a chasm between them. One that would need crossing... and one that they both seemed willing to work toward. They couldn't change the past, but there were things they could do here.]

I still carry many regrets over my own choices, but the way they'd grasped for more power than should be theirs did seem to only grow more desperate the longer I remained alive.

[But from what Dan Heng said, they'd been dealt with as much as was possible, and he and High Elder Bailu were free from that. There was something else worth far more attention than those regrets.]

Anything that you wish to know or learn, if I have the answers, they will be yours. If there happens to be even a chance you'll remember what I'm able to tell you... though even without knowing one way or the other, I believe trying to be more than worth it.

[It wouldn't matter if he remembered this should he find himself back in their world, but if Dan Heng could remember, it could only help. And even if the knowledge didn't go back with him, it could help him here, even a little.]