Stating simply, "He missed his parents. That was why. He was alone. His parents are gone. So after you're gone, when I found him, I took him home to Cloud Recesses."

He remembered seeing the child, and unable to bear seeing him near death, as he's the only piece connecting his memory of him, and of course, motivated to do the right thing and compassion. "I raised him like one of my own."

He was quiet at first. Then in a soft, his politeness slipped. "Wei Ying, he doesn't remember anything you taught him. When I took him home, he fell into a fever and when he recovered, he's a bright three-year-old who is happy to see the other Lan children."