Madoka, you've been adopted by men who've been in martial arts training since the age of five. Child safety is about keeping the children alive, and training them. At least where Wei Wuxian was concerned.
He's not insensitive to her discomfort, for better and worse.
"I know," he says, "And I'm sorry to ask you to do this." She's not a person who strikes out to live this life, but it is the one she has, while she's here. That she cannot stay back under her own choices means this is also a choice. Not an easy one, yet a choice nonetheless.
She finishes with the rope, and he shifts to take it from her, making quick work of hogtying the man's feet to his hands. It takes looking for something else to shove in his mouth, but eventually, he falls more quiet.
"Miss Madoka, can you reach out over the SCA to the other camps, see if anything like this is happening there? They might need the warning ahead, and from what I hear—more is oncoming here." He cants his head to the side, listening to the shouts and cries of surprise cutting through the morning air.
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He's not insensitive to her discomfort, for better and worse.
"I know," he says, "And I'm sorry to ask you to do this." She's not a person who strikes out to live this life, but it is the one she has, while she's here. That she cannot stay back under her own choices means this is also a choice. Not an easy one, yet a choice nonetheless.
She finishes with the rope, and he shifts to take it from her, making quick work of hogtying the man's feet to his hands. It takes looking for something else to shove in his mouth, but eventually, he falls more quiet.
"Miss Madoka, can you reach out over the SCA to the other camps, see if anything like this is happening there? They might need the warning ahead, and from what I hear—more is oncoming here." He cants his head to the side, listening to the shouts and cries of surprise cutting through the morning air.