[His thoughts keep drifting in that direction - it's hard to keep away from it, considering his last, hazy, red-tinged memories, but he doesn't want to voice these thoughts out loud and build the rage up inside himself. For now, he keeps that darkness under lock and key.]

Then I will trust you both. [He knows the brothers to be honorable and honest, good men. Lan Xichen especially, he does feel he owes a debt to. His musical techniques that granted Nie Mingjue a little while longer on the earth (unlike Jin Guangyao's playing, what had gone wrong?), his guidance in this strange dream, he doesn't exaggerate when he says it seems that Xichen is always helping him.] I hope he does not squander it. He was a friend to Huaisang as well. [Something flickers over his face, fleeting, when he mentions his brother's name out loud for the first time since waking here, but he doesn't give voice to whatever thoughts cross his mind.]

I imagine there is much to learn here. Tell me about this-... magical world that you believe I will wake in.