[ She doesn't finish his thought, though she knows the words that were left unsaid.

Instead, she just nods, coming to suspect what forces might be at play here. ]

There may be a larger lesson to be learned, in this. In Ryslig— In the realm which trapped me before I arrived here— we were often tortured and twisted, bringing up parts of ourselves and our pasts which we hated and feared. Made to act against our nature. Often it was without rhyme or reason, but not without teaching us something greater about ourselves.