[ For starters, dialogue requires more than one person. A conversation is one that may be held between a person and their own meandering thoughts, but the act of dialoguing is a conversation between two people.

Yi Sang wracks his brain. In truth, he hadn't thought that far ahead, hadn't considered what he should do after making it to the top of Hong Lu's tower. Fortunately, Hong Lu rescues him, by suggesting they play a game. ]

There are several games we may choose to play. There is Twenty Questions, in which one of us shall try to guess within twenty questions what the other is thinking of. Alternatively, there is Two Truths And a Lie, in which we offer each other three statements about ourselves. Two of them shall be facts. One shall be an untruth.

[ Yi Sang nods, satisfied with his suggestions. By now, the pulse in his wrist has slowed to a more normal tempo. ]

Unless there is something else you may wish to play, Hong Lu?