[ It's funny because Jing Yuan has a great deal of confidence, and yet he prefers to be modest or humble whenever he is talking about his own skills seriously. As it is, he looks somewhere between sheepish or slightly embarrassed (wow don't perceive that!) when Solomon points that out. ]

Haha, well, when you put it that way...

[ He trails off because time to reorient the subject back onto his student, to cover up that embarrassment which briefly showed on his face. Which, thankfully, Solomon does himself, hearing him speak upon him saying that he has essentially the right attitude for it. ]

I always do, yes.

But, ah, you're right. It would truly be a shame if I did. It is quite a pain to keep up with the spells and whatnot here. Even if I would not call my concentration poor; I too simply know it could be simply the nature of things.

[ He isn't going to end up dying here just because he is getting out the fam pics. Now that would simply be sad, but he moves to ensure his step isn't at least slow-moving because, yeah. Just a little more, so while they make their way towards the end of the tree line...resisting a bit from opening out the cell he has just got, he asks: ]

...Oh, do you have any students that you'd like to speak of yourself, by the way?