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[jeoha]

Lee Chang
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[jeoha]

[ Could he even be trusted with such a task? He had been as blind to betrayal as anyone. ]

... I will do my best, of course.

Though I hope more to empower you to do so.

[downswing]

( Surprisingly, a light tone: )

Have you wedded? Fathered? Widowed?

[jeoha]

... No.

It would have had weight, once. It would no longer.

[downswing]

You learn they are not exercises of empowerment.

Only, chance.

[jeoha]

[ He can't help but let out a small breath of a laugh.

The concept of marriage or fatherhood being something other than an exercise of power was a foreign one. ]

What I mean to say is that it was not a matter of chance, for me. They were not my choices to make.


But perhaps, now, you are right.

[downswing]

...you intend to seek a wife?

[jeoha]

[ Well, when put that way— ]

Ah. No. [ Pretty sure Mingyu would have something to say about that. ]

I mean more that my future is… more mine to make.

[downswing]

We all live captives of duty.

[jeoha]

Duty, or greed, and I agree I far prefer the former.

[ A pause. ]

Forgive me. I am mulling about things long past, and hardly relevant now. But no, I have no such family to call my own. I take it he is yours?

[downswing]

( ...ah. And the political answer: )

I choose him.

[jeoha]

[ Or at least as political as Wangji gets. There is a pause, then a gentle warmth in his voice when he replies: ]

I understand. I wish you both well.