Answered.
more random dialogue prompts -- @divineshadows asked: “why do you have that look on your face?”
He had to unclench his jaw for this one, but he didn’t sit up from the tree he was under.
“One of my, students, landed a hit where I have an injury.”
They didn’t mean to. Usually they aim for the shoulder to avoid hurting him. But both they and Kratos called off the lesson when the ordinarily mild hit brought the man to his knees and made his ears ring...
Well, maybe Yuan and Baizhu wouldn’t notice. Maybe. Lloyd might not, at least. Maybe.
It was an expression of pain, then.
“Did you need, ah, something from me?”