[He didn't know. Yuan knows, too, that it's foolish to borrow guilt. He has more than enough of his own to be getting on with. All the same...]

[Well. Kratos is here now, and as safe as can be. He doesn't shake his head, mostly because Kratos is working at remembering braids. Yuan stays still and patient. He can't quite tell what Kratos is doing, apart from the obvious, and he doesn't particularly care, beyond that it has Kratos focusing on something different.]

[And he can't help but think Kratos is going to laugh. I took up carpentry, he provides in the same way, without a hint of irony. Staying on the outskirts of Iselia was safer, all things considered, but I needed a trade. Mercenaries don't settle the same way. There were more factors, but the list isn't necessary; and he had set aside his exsphere, but the difference in years hardly shows on him.]