[Just as suddenly as they'd entered both seas of their hearts, they were pulled back out. Daqiang's arm pulled away as if he'd been burned and he took two steps back before turning to face away from her. To look out the large windows that allowed the light of the sun to flood the room at sunrise when docked appropriately.]

Until now this venerable one has never suffered!

[The words snapped out of him before he could pull the emotions back and put them under control. Put them behind the ice he needed them to be under. So that he wouldn't feel. Wouldn't lose the power he needed to protect his people. To revive the Cangyanhai and the Moon Tribe. To defeat Shuiyuntian.

To be their weapon. Their tool. Their unfeeling knife at the tip of their spear.]

This venerable one does not suffer out of choice. It is only because of the emotions of others forcing this venerable one to feel that he knows what suffering is. Without emotions there is no suffering.

[Without emotions there was also no happiness. No joy. No love.

...he was so tired of feeling things. Rem made him want to feel but he was just so tired of how much they weighed on him.

With a shuttered breath, he murmured:]

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