[ He starts out with a low chuckle that slowly crescendos into helpless laughter. ]

Ready to have that conversation, are you? How easily you volunteer. And yet, until now, you could barely even remember that we had a fourteenth member of our council, could you?

[ Why is he doing this? He could just leave Elidibus to handle the difficult conversation. But several millennia of anger and bitterness don't simply vanish overnight, soothing golden showers or no. ]

You don't know what it has been like to live burdened by their memories. And now that I finally have a chance to have some semblance of the life I always wanted, you would take it away.