It's so fucking funny, though. Under all the awful. I can see him deciding never to use a short body again, just because Shiang isn't paying enough attention to him. And then he does it for the next four hundred years, ages after she dies. Vain bastard.

[There's something terrible, terribly fond, mixed in with Jedao's contempt. It would be so much easier to separate Quentin from Kujen if part of Jedao didn't love them both. Complicated people, indeed.]

Yeah. That'd be nice.