"If it's fleeting, what's the point?" Jiao asked, lifting her nose and crossing her arms. Beauty was something you could come back to, keep looking at, own for yourself. She wasn't interested in seeing something from afar, knowing it could go away...she was interested in collections, in what she could keep and possess and show off.
She took a couple of steps back. Once you issued a challenge you didn't stay around much; it was just bad form. "So, do you think you can do it? It would have to be something better than...well...what you've got on." The task seemed so impossible for the cobbler she was sure she'd never need to worry about having to show him the village.
Jiao
And the bittersweet of every new defeat
Is I'm stronger than before
