[ He recognizes the behavior for what it is - the man is trying to scare him. Push him away, but for what reason? G'raha realizes that there stan a choice before him now: he can either leave and create a permanent wound in Daqiang's heart or face it.

No surprises what he chooses, grabbing the front of the man's robes and twisting him to look at G'raha in the eye. G'raha, who is unwavering. He still doesn't understand what all of this has to do with why Daqiang is upset. Why does he hurt so in a way that causes him to lash out. ]

You stated that he caused you harm and that your own family desired to kill you. It was not a thought in your mind to kill him first. While I may not know the context of the other terrible things you have claimed to do, I know the man that you are right here and now. What I do not see is a monster, but a man who has had to be what he must to endure so much.

[ After a moment, G'raha looks down. ]

If you are a monster, what does that make me? Me, who traversed time to erase an entire future? You may have put down lives, but you will never match my number, for I have even destroyed that which will no longer even have a chance to exist.

[ His hand grip the other tighter. ]

I am a man who knows what it means to run away from pain and loss. To lock himself up in hopes that it would shut it all out so that it wouldn't be acknowledged. A man who nearly tore his dearest companion apart from the inside out just to achieve those means - a different future. I ripped souls from their bodies and carried them across the cosmos without the means to put them back.

[ So does this make G'raha a monster too? ]