[He slips the sunglasses back on. He opens his eyes, grabbing the knife, and starting to chop again. He needs to do something with his hands, an outlet for the swirl of feelings that come with the admission. Relief and fear, the want to sit in the moment, and the instinct to run and hide and cover up the admitted weakness.]
[Its a lot easier to just work it out by finely chopping the peppers.]
I will never refuse help to save my parents.
...Azure Lion, Yellowtusk, and Peng are still a force to be reckoned with. I'm not sure if I could take one of them one on one. Amongst heaven and hell, they are the ones to never underestimate.
I'm hoping the Noodle Boy and his friends are still free. Its hard to say. They wanted to recruit father back to their brotherhood. I don't know if that means they would wait to try and have him before approaching Wukong, or if they went for Wukong first since he was a bigger threat and far more likely to reject them, and if they dealt with Wukong, I don't know what that says for the rest of them. Either way, the solution will not be an easy one.
[Since he should be honest about the difficulty. He got an actual, literal army to deal with them and it still failed. The Noodle Boy was surprising, but still, he did not want it to be easy.]
[Of course, he doesn't think of what she's giving up.]
[Mostly because he knows how to make a dimensional gate and she knows that, so he doesn't think maybe she wouldn't have faith in that, whoops.]
...you make offers I never know how to take. [There's a breathy kind of laugh as he tosses in the vegetables in the pan and chops up more of them.] Not in a thinking you're lying way. Its...
no subject
[Its a lot easier to just work it out by finely chopping the peppers.]
I will never refuse help to save my parents.
...Azure Lion, Yellowtusk, and Peng are still a force to be reckoned with. I'm not sure if I could take one of them one on one. Amongst heaven and hell, they are the ones to never underestimate.
I'm hoping the Noodle Boy and his friends are still free. Its hard to say. They wanted to recruit father back to their brotherhood. I don't know if that means they would wait to try and have him before approaching Wukong, or if they went for Wukong first since he was a bigger threat and far more likely to reject them, and if they dealt with Wukong, I don't know what that says for the rest of them. Either way, the solution will not be an easy one.
[Since he should be honest about the difficulty. He got an actual, literal army to deal with them and it still failed. The Noodle Boy was surprising, but still, he did not want it to be easy.]
[Of course, he doesn't think of what she's giving up.]
[Mostly because he knows how to make a dimensional gate and she knows that, so he doesn't think maybe she wouldn't have faith in that, whoops.]
...you make offers I never know how to take. [There's a breathy kind of laugh as he tosses in the vegetables in the pan and chops up more of them.] Not in a thinking you're lying way. Its...
New.