[Huo responded with a resolute shake of the head.] One's essence is not so easily transformed. True virtue is the top of a great mountain, achieved only by effort, sometimes by great pain. In believing otherwise, do we not risk complacency?

[He paused then, glancing away.] Forgive me. You have come to give advice, and here I am, lecturing you. [Smoke's choices were his own. It was difficult to think of any choice as truly right.] I fear I'm not much for temptation.