Calling the vote now, sorry about the wait. Still too damn hot outside, but this morning is cool enough to write

>>6235146
Thank you for the count, XD, though by my count has Magnus knows at 3 votes, rather than two.

Anyways, Lieren will explain that "My teacher's next life was at risk, so I escorted him through the realm of Jian Qi" and "Hysh is a fire that can heal. I sought to learn how to create with the blaze of my soul, and succeeded by find the cleansing flame"

writing now

>>6235801
>>6235802
> “If it came to it...if he strayed, if he defied the Throne for some reason you can't place or even if you could-”

>The air hung a moment

>“-Could you kill Lieren?”

This had a lot of impact, but the whole short story is fantastic, feel you captured Malcador and Leman's character/ personality really well and I really felt drawn in as Leman explained what it is to fight and actually try to kill Lieren

Excellent writing!