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You stop once again. One could be mistaken that you were thinking about what to say next, or perhaps you were checking to see if Tseten was listening but in reality you were contemplating the past once more. "But just like a raging fire, the more you feed it the more out of control it becomes, and then came the day it decided to engulf everything around it. Everyone knows the story, what I did and how I was captured. The irony was, in the end, I got exactly what I wanted. I was known as the greatest Kung Fu master in the world and one of the worst criminals in the history of China..." You place a heavy hand on the boy's shoulder and look him in the eye. "I'm telling you this because I know how you're feeling and I know that you're trying to figure what to do. I'm here to listen and to help. So, what's bothering you?"
As you speak the boy's uneasiness only increases. They swing their legs and shift in their seat, all signs of someone who was caught in the act. Eventually the tears begin to roll down their face and they sniff to try and hold back mucus. "B-big brother is gone...I looked everywhere for him. People say he stayed behind on the mountain." He says clenching his teeth. "He's gone and the house is gone and, and, and I couldn't do anything!" The small wolf rubs their eyes in shame as he heaves. "Everyone else got to fight and be brave but they wouldn't let me do stuff to help! They made me go away and leave with everyone else! I learned stuff too like them! Why didn't they let me help? And now we're here and I can't help. I'm useless! Big sis has to work all day and she's tired and everyone else is tired! I-I hate those guys! We didn't do anything! I hate them!"
>What do you do?
>Tell Tseten you know someone who felt the same way as him. Ming. If anyone knows how to help him, it'd be her.
>Say that he's just a child and shouldn't have to take responsibility for any of this. He should take this as a chance to do better and become better. If not for him then for his family.
>Say that right now there's nothing he can do about this. But perhaps in the future he might find his calling. He's still a child and being forced to be an adult isn't right.
>Write in.
