And yet that is still not reason to add fuel to the flame, is it?

[he says carefully, though he sees how tired this young man is. it's strange to know that right now, in his home, jingyi is a child he does not know well but knows.

not the young man he grows to be.] Perhaps not in the world and social circles we know but it is not... so unfamiliar to some. [it's good to know that he's grown up with the precepts so dear to him, though.]

Either way, were there not other ways to ask?