It was a choice I would have made, regardless - there were still people in the Kiln, after all, that should not have been there. I think that was the good example.

[ because what help would ascension be, truly? he will take his mantle as the only supreme ghost to ever ascend to true godhood, though, and he'll rub it in all of their faces for the next 800 years as well. hell, it'd even before he rose to supreme. truly, a blight for the heavens.

and yet he sits here with xie lian, rubbing his thumb against one of the ferret's white cheeks with gentle care. hardly a threat. ]

You will have many hundreds of years of banquets. I'll be glad for at least one version of myself to stay by your side through them, when I could not until very recently.