Finding Tanya

"So… they were fine, and I didn't have to cripple the bandits?" Iris asked with a blank look on her face.

"No, the bandits struck to kill. Had I not been here, these people would've definitely died," Ning said. "What you did, what what you would have done in a normal scenario where I would be absent."

"I see," she said. She still had a hard time processing everything. "What I did… was that the right thing or not? What would you have done?" 

"I would've killed them," Ning said. "I've killed people for less, but that's not the point. It's what you would have done, and you made a choice for yourself. There is no right or wrong answer here. As long as you make one, that's enough. You have shown me what sort of a person you are, and that's enough."

"I see," she said.

"Take some rest. You went through a bit of a rollercoaster of emotions and probably don't know how to feel right now," Ning said.

"A what of emotions?" she asked.