"I'll be fine, I told you that already!" he exclaimed, his right hand starting to glow with a bluish flame. "It's just the fatigue of the long travel here to the upper world."
I was a bit taken aback by his retort, and my grip tightened on the tea set tray. How inconsiderate could someone get? I was only worried and his bullish pride gets in the way. Were he not injured I would have taught him a lesson--and I would had Qi Xun Jue not given me a restraining glare. Qi Xun Jue was still examining him from afar from head to foot, and I noticed a slight uneasiness on his part.
"Is he, then, one of us?" I whispered to the Seer as I placed the tea set upon the small night table beside the bed.
"What do you think, little water jasmine? Your instinct is as correct as my visions." Qi Xun Jue replied as he walked out of the room, leaving me to watch over him.
He was still sitting on the bed, his back to me, not even acknowledging my presence. I tried to offer him tea, yet he still sat there, in a defiant silence. He had drawn an invisible wall between us, and I scramble for words that would help me break through. I waited for a reply, yet none came.
"What was your name again? Lord Zhuan Xu did not even introduce you properly to us."
Another round of silence. Strange--here I am, master of words, killed by the slience of a stranger. A stranger soon to be under my wing as Keeper, yet with this silence, how can he be one? I would even prefer all that fake civility to this silence.
"Very well--if you do not wish to talk, then I should leave. I have more pressing matters to attend to."
Frustrated, I left the room.
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