When he'd offered to answer questions, he hadn't expected a barrage of them all at once! Even if he wanted to share some of those answers, there were things listening almost anywhere they went!

"Slow down, you can't just ask all of that out in the open!" he returns in a hushed voice. The last question throws him the most though. Qing or Northern Qi? Where? Just how far had their paths diverged?

"I'm from Yunmeng," he clarified, as if that should be obvious. What if this version hadn't grown up at Lotus Pier? What if the fates of Wei Changze and Cangse Sanren were completely different?

"What are you talking about?"