"I would rather bear the pain with you," Lan Zhan says, two steps carrying him forward, "then have you fade away and never know. Will you have me play Inquiry to find out the fate of the Yiling Patriarch? Or will Wei Ying remember he had a friend before he took up Chenqing?"

Maybe it's the Burial Mounds, but the pain is far more keen here. Is it the ghosts, hungry for fresh suffering? Or is it just his heart, creaking the weight of his feelings start to crack it open?