<div class="floatright">(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j88/zavaelduauram/xiaoxing_zpsbd0449ef.jpg)</div>This was coming closer to legitimizing the Old Stories than she was entirely comfortable with.  But, if they were to presume that this historian was telling the truth-- and at first blush, she couldn't smell falsehood or agenda in his answers...<br/><br/>"Discounting the enemies we are going to make with the actions we take," Xiaoxing asked, a bit of a wan smile on her expression, "will we face inherent opposition and danger from certain factions on the basis that we are what we have become?"