We always hope for more time, don’t we? To do the things we have always wanted to do. Once upon a time I dreamt of filling Koi Tower with the laughter of children. But that was not meant to be. A-Ling was enough. I had always hoped to pass the sect to A-Ling when he came of age.

[Thirteen years of peace. It was worth it that the young ones didn’t know the horrors of war.]

Our generation gave up everything in the war. And the peace and austerity was hard won. I don’t regret that.

Right now you aren’t Zewu-Jun or the first Jade, you are just a man. You have time to find your song.