[Yuan has never done half measures. Perhaps neither of them have changed that much.]

[He hasn't decided yet if that's discomfiting or reassuring.]

He was worse off when I got him.

[Not quite defensive, but... Yuan takes care of what's his. Whether it's the blade that took him out of here or the prisoner who was his fixation for so many years.]

[...'was' may be inaccurate. Yuan ignores this.]

I don't expect him to see fighting, but the unexpected happens.