[This is all so much for a local ye olde to handle and understand. Context from the memory helps with some of the things he doesn't know, but he can't help being awed by the size of that city, by all of the devices they're able to employ-- especially by the ship.
But it isn't too much of a distraction from everything else, and perhaps more than anything else, Nie Huaisang understands betrayal. Especially from someone you've looked up to, someone who was never meant to be like this-- especially when it seems to make no sense at first. There's no clear reason why things should be that way, but suddenly they are, the floor dropped out from underneath.
When that memory ends, he's struck silent for several moments, eyes still a little wide; his expression settles, though, into something more sympathetic. There's no pity there, though.]
-you've been like this with all of us, even though someone like that turned on you...? No one could have blamed you for behaving differently, you know.
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But it isn't too much of a distraction from everything else, and perhaps more than anything else, Nie Huaisang understands betrayal. Especially from someone you've looked up to, someone who was never meant to be like this-- especially when it seems to make no sense at first. There's no clear reason why things should be that way, but suddenly they are, the floor dropped out from underneath.
When that memory ends, he's struck silent for several moments, eyes still a little wide; his expression settles, though, into something more sympathetic. There's no pity there, though.]
-you've been like this with all of us, even though someone like that turned on you...? No one could have blamed you for behaving differently, you know.