[The realization that he's talking to a cat should probably be a little stranger, but then he's been friends with a dog for several months now, and that is infinitely stranger because, well. He's a dog. Wei Wuxian takes it in stride and finds his brow furrowing at the tale the cat tells.]

I know what surgery is. [And what an awful thing, to do a surgery on someone against their will. He very pointedly does not think about that sentiment for even a second longer than he has to.]

I chose it during a war. It was necessary to protect my family.

[It all went to shit in the end and he'd failed dramatically, but that doesn't change what his motivation had been back then. He doesn't want to dwell on any of that though, and he continues speaking.]

But that was a long time ago, [He offers a smile, shaking his head.] And a very different circumstance from yours it seems. Still, if you'd like to speak to one of the dead together sometime, maybe we could learn something from each other.