[ He watches him, for a beat. Then, Ming Yi adds, as he looks forward again: ]
Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps you from succumbing to your miserable existence, but then you're left wondering what the hell you do afterwards, when the source is gone.
There was a period, during all of this, that I was imprisoned for two years. It's why my stomach is "messed up." At the end of it, I saw him - like he'd come to check and make sure that what he'd done had worked. I died not long after, but that resentment, that anger, kept me from passing on.
It took a while for me to be able to do anything with it.
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[ He watches him, for a beat. Then, Ming Yi adds, as he looks forward again: ]
Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps you from succumbing to your miserable existence, but then you're left wondering what the hell you do afterwards, when the source is gone.
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Fuck. [too relatable.] Yeah, pretty much. Especially when you gotta hold onto it longer than most people even live for, I'm guessing?
[he waited over a hundred years for his revenge. given ming yi's age, it was probably even longer for him.]
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There was a period, during all of this, that I was imprisoned for two years. It's why my stomach is "messed up." At the end of it, I saw him - like he'd come to check and make sure that what he'd done had worked. I died not long after, but that resentment, that anger, kept me from passing on.
It took a while for me to be able to do anything with it.
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[whoever "he" is.]
So when you say you're a ghost, you're a vengeful spirit or something?