[Dokja's sudden appearance before him makes Liem stop in his tracks, his frown turning tight and wary. As someone capable of appearing quite suddenly next to other people should he wish to, he's found more and more since arriving on Horos that he finds the reverse extremely nerve-wracking. Especially when he's already injured and low on magic.

He could use the last of it to just ditch Dokja right now, probably. Or maybe that would just make him more determined to track him down, and he'd end up right back in this same situation, but with all of his travel magic expended.

He really is giving Liem no choice but to talk, isn't he?]

That was a child's fantasy. [He says it evenly, with bitten-off precision.] Something I wished for because I was tired of doing the hard thing. Because I wanted to have the luxury of being kind.

It was a dream; so I was woken up.