You don't need to verbally swear anything. In the end, words mean nothing. Just make sure he knows.
[ This isn't exactly the easiest conversation for him and really, he wishes he had put an end to it as soon as he had the agreement to be taught the silencing spell - but it's a necessary warning, just to make sure the company Jin Ling keeps can be trusted.
It's hard not to at least want to trust in such painful earnestness. ]
It's true. When you become sect leader at the age he did, and I did, it is very difficult to be seen as an equal to older sect leaders. Yesterday, people were still treating you as a child, now you hold authority over them. I try to help him but there is only so much I can do without harming him instead. He can't be seen as a weak leader who needs to be propped up by his uncle or as a Yunmeng Jiang puppet.
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[ This isn't exactly the easiest conversation for him and really, he wishes he had put an end to it as soon as he had the agreement to be taught the silencing spell - but it's a necessary warning, just to make sure the company Jin Ling keeps can be trusted.
It's hard not to at least want to trust in such painful earnestness. ]
It's true. When you become sect leader at the age he did, and I did, it is very difficult to be seen as an equal to older sect leaders. Yesterday, people were still treating you as a child, now you hold authority over them. I try to help him but there is only so much I can do without harming him instead. He can't be seen as a weak leader who needs to be propped up by his uncle or as a Yunmeng Jiang puppet.