He listened quietly. He knows much about those who hunger for power and he can't imagine it is all that different on other worlds. Not the broad strokes, even if the details were.

He reached out towards her hands, wanting to give comfort, sad that such things had happened to her. Whatever her sect was like, whoever had led it and what kind of people it had drawn it had still been hers and losing your home, seeing your family destroyed. That was a terrible, terrible thing.

"I'm sorry Wen Qing. That that all happened and that he is here now." He didn't deserve what had happened to him today, no one did. But Taiki also wondered at why he had been brought to this place at all. If this train wished them to be saviours, why bring someone known to be ruthless and cruel?