"No no no, it's fine! It's fine. Please don't worry, Lan Zhan, I was absorbed in my work, that is all."
He kneels to sweep the lures together in a pile. If it gives him a moment where he is not looking at Lan Zhan's face, and can compose his thoughts more clearly, even better.
"These are a good start," he goes on, in what has become his standard response to any praise of his work. "They did not summon the resentful spirits as quickly as I would like, but they summoned enough to work with. And it is not just the ghosts we found before -- there has been violent death here, though not very much of it."
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He kneels to sweep the lures together in a pile. If it gives him a moment where he is not looking at Lan Zhan's face, and can compose his thoughts more clearly, even better.
"These are a good start," he goes on, in what has become his standard response to any praise of his work. "They did not summon the resentful spirits as quickly as I would like, but they summoned enough to work with. And it is not just the ghosts we found before -- there has been violent death here, though not very much of it."