Audience: Gu Yun

[probe]

Comments

[probe]

[they are... quiet. for a long moment. watching. gu yun will get the impression that they are listening very closely, intently. and finally:]

You don't.

[have any reason to believe they'll tell the truth, they mean. they push the glass away again, gold eyes glittering under the hood.]

Don't think of me as an emperor. [that almost sounds like they're spitting it. bitter.] And don't waste your time.

[and - for a moment, gu yun is blind. fifteen, twenty seconds. when he can see again, pride is gone.]

[liuli]

[ RUDE I'M BLIND ENOUGH ALREADY ]