❝ Don’t you ever wonder, what could have been? ❞
" i have. " maybe if xiao had not been so naïve- so trusting and innocent in his youth, maybe the being that he was now would not have come to exist. he tucks his chin atop his knees- and his back aches, a phantom pain for something that has been missing from him for a long time.
the yaksha’s gaze falls on the original part of his adeptal abode- the one where he resided when he could still fly- when he was still the golden winged king. ( it must be dusty up there- he muses, somewhere between bitterness and mirth. ) " i have had a lot of time to think about it. eons of wondering what could've been. but obsessing about it, letting those thoughts occupy my mind for too long . . . doesn't change the present. and it doesn’t help me. "
( i’d never choose a different path. )
" but fate has lead me to this moment. one day- my path will be different, but for now- i will continue to fulfill my end of my contract. "
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