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[unlanlike]

[ it’s easier said than done! Jingyi doesn’t even fully know how to communicate this to himself! ]

it’s too embarrassing. It is also not important enough to have troubled you with.

[lanerjiejie]

You never trouble me.

[unlanlike]

Seriously?

[lanerjiejie]

Have I ever made you think so?

[unlanlike]

No... not specifically so.

[lanerjiejie]

Your elders are here to guide you.

[unlanlike]

But I know I can be difficult.

[lanerjiejie]

Who said that?

[unlanlike]

It doesn't matter.

[lanerjiejie]

It does if it makes you doubt yourself.

[unlanlike]

It doesn't! I mean... I know who I am.

[lanerjiejie]

And have I said you are difficult, or made you doubt who you are?

[unlanlike]

No.

[lanerjiejie]

Then can I not be of help?

[unlanlike]

Some things are hard to admit, especially to certain people.

[lanerjiejie]

I am unworthy as an Elder.

[unlanlike]

WHat?! No...! Why would you say that? You are the most amazing!

[lanerjiejie]

And yet I cannot help you at a difficult time.

[unlanlike]

That's my own failing!

[lanerjiejie]

... Then do you need to be punished for it?

[unlanlike]

Probably...

It's a dumb problem anyway.

[lanerjiejie]

I cannot opine if I do not know the particulars.

[unlanlike]

But once I tell you the particulars I can't untell them.

[lanerjiejie]

What are you afraid of?

[unlanlike]

Ghosts! ...A lot of things.

[ He knows that's not the point of the question... ]

Of being a disappointment or embarrassed. Or feeling stupider than usual.