[He's a simple man, really. Such big ambitions are way beyond him.
Zhang Liao doesn't say anything for a moment. He merely regards Chen Gong with weary eyes, the fire in them having dimmed down after his outburst. Perhaps Chen Gong hasn't noticed admist the flurry of blades and the bloodbaths Zhang Liao leaves behind when he's done with the enemy, but those have been his eyes for the past few battles. The battles could be quicker, cleaner, if Chen Gong's plans had been adopted. It is almost as if Lord Lu Bu turned a deaf ear to choose the bloodiest path ahead.
Such a path will eventually lead to destruction. What is more chilling though, is that that is a path that Lord Lu Bu will wilingly walk on. Zhang Liao...he can't say he agrees anymore. Not after everything that's happened, and not when so many lives are at stake. He thinks of the men under his charge, of the hopes everyone has for Lord Lu Bu. That they perish for the sake of one man's battle lust...he isn't so blinded by his own pursuit of his path to ignore their plight.
An outsider might comment on how strange it is that two men who have fought side by side in the same battles for so many years could grow so differently.]
Master Chen Gong, forgive me for my impunity and my boldness to presume, but we both know...that Lord Lu Bu will not listen.
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Date: 2014-07-09 10:09 am (UTC)Zhang Liao doesn't say anything for a moment. He merely regards Chen Gong with weary eyes, the fire in them having dimmed down after his outburst. Perhaps Chen Gong hasn't noticed admist the flurry of blades and the bloodbaths Zhang Liao leaves behind when he's done with the enemy, but those have been his eyes for the past few battles. The battles could be quicker, cleaner, if Chen Gong's plans had been adopted. It is almost as if Lord Lu Bu turned a deaf ear to choose the bloodiest path ahead.
Such a path will eventually lead to destruction. What is more chilling though, is that that is a path that Lord Lu Bu will wilingly walk on. Zhang Liao...he can't say he agrees anymore. Not after everything that's happened, and not when so many lives are at stake. He thinks of the men under his charge, of the hopes everyone has for Lord Lu Bu. That they perish for the sake of one man's battle lust...he isn't so blinded by his own pursuit of his path to ignore their plight.
An outsider might comment on how strange it is that two men who have fought side by side in the same battles for so many years could grow so differently.]
Master Chen Gong, forgive me for my impunity and my boldness to presume, but we both know...that Lord Lu Bu will not listen.