Taicang Mountain. It's...where I trained, as a child.
[It's easier to feel calm, with Pyra here; easier to ignore the constant pleas for help, with someone by his side.
He manages to smile a bit at her attempt, though he can't quite muster a laugh.] I'm not sure we could get out through the city gate, regardless--those walls are much higher here than I remember.
[Luckily the mountain appears to be close enough that they don't need to leave town at all, the walls ending abruptly when they reach its side. Wherever they go though, the never-ending throngs of people never seem to thin out at all.]
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[It's easier to feel calm, with Pyra here; easier to ignore the constant pleas for help, with someone by his side.
He manages to smile a bit at her attempt, though he can't quite muster a laugh.] I'm not sure we could get out through the city gate, regardless--those walls are much higher here than I remember.
[Luckily the mountain appears to be close enough that they don't need to leave town at all, the walls ending abruptly when they reach its side. Wherever they go though, the never-ending throngs of people never seem to thin out at all.]