"Was it the man who shot at you? He wasn't with us."
'Us' meaning the NSO. Xichen might have had whisperings of an operation to handle Wei Wuxian. Perhaps on some level, he'd even thought something needed to be done. His activism may done more harm than good to the image of metahumans everywhere.
"We spoke only of retrieving and detaining him for everyone's safety, including his own. Killing him was not part of the plan. I would never have mentioned your relationship with him had I known."
The assassin wasn't one of theirs, right? It couldn't have been...
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on 2020-02-03 03:21 pm (UTC)'Us' meaning the NSO. Xichen might have had whisperings of an operation to handle Wei Wuxian. Perhaps on some level, he'd even thought something needed to be done. His activism may done more harm than good to the image of metahumans everywhere.
"We spoke only of retrieving and detaining him for everyone's safety, including his own. Killing him was not part of the plan. I would never have mentioned your relationship with him had I known."
The assassin wasn't one of theirs, right? It couldn't have been...