[ Ah, what a question...though perhaps it's only fair that she asks. There is plenty on his mind, though it isn't as easy for him to share all that with a stranger, as pleasant as she is.

But he need not get into it too deep. After all, like her, he's been displaced from his life back home just the same. ]

Nonesense, you were merely indulging my line of questioning, but since you mention it...my presence here to begin with is perhaps what weighs most heavily on my mind. I understand it's out of their control, but the timing was...inconvenient, to say the least.

[ They could have at least let him save his kingdom first..... ]