Fingers curl around her wrist as she remembers the weight of the heavy shackles and then, inevitably, the interrogations. It doesn't feel like she has been spared, least of all with the acute sense of betrayal of her own sect condemning her to this fate. Yet she also remembers Ah Ning haltingly telling her about what he had found at Lotus Pier, giving her answers to questions she hadn't dared ask her Yunmeng Jiang guests - she had been too cowardly to hear the answer from them.

"I never said I'm sorry," she says quietly, ignoring his attempt to change the topic to something safer and more pleasant. "For what you suffered. And your family. At the hands of mine. Or for... for before, when I witnessed your humiliation every day." She'd had a lot of time to think in her cell. "I told Ah Ning we're not like that. But I never said sorry."