"What's duress mean."

"Pressure. Coercion. Threats."

"You left me. I haven’t seen you. You- you didn’t come visit me once, after I was exiled, you know that, so don’t try and guilt me."

"I did! And I thought you were dead!"

Tommy shoves him. "You didn't-- Dream told me you didn't-- Don't try and guilt me."

"Yeah, because Dream's trustworthy. I trust everything Dream says." The sarcasm is thick.

For the first time, he agrees with Technoblade. "That matches what I've seen."

"Thank you, bleedfierceforever. At least you understand. Also, do you have a less cringe nickname or something."

He didn't choose to be called this. "My name is Xiao Jingyan."

"Xiao Jingyan." (He's got the best pronunciation of it from anyone else in the server; he's still notably foreign and accented, but he's also notably actually attempting the tones.) "Thank you, thank you. Anyway. Back to why we should trust Dream?"

"Techno. Please."

"Whatever. Have your moment."

"I don't want to hear-- I don't want to hear any of this, alright! I don't want to hear shit! Don't try to speak to me about this! Stop lying, man! We're here to get Techno's pickaxe and then we're gonna get back the discs."

"I'm not lying! I did, once, and I was told to leave, in fact, many times!"

"You didn't visit me once. You didn't even come to my party, you didn't--"

"Because you didn't invite me!"

"Wow, even I came and visited you once."

"Stop it. I don't want to hear this shit. What are we doing here-- Where is Techno's stuff, do you have his stuff."

This is Very Familiar. (And he could help before, a little bit, bug he doesn't know this Tommy. There's nothing he can say.)

"Yes, he has my stuff, he tried to execute me, the execution stand is still there." Point. There is a cage and a stage and a weird contraption above the cage.

"WHAT THE FUCK! HOLY SHIT! I'VE NEVER SEEN THIS?????"

"How have you never--there was an anvil up there!!!"

"Really?!"

"Do you see the evils of government now, Tommy!"

"You monsters! What the hell is wrong with you!"