"There are things I no longer wish to remember." The words held a tired heavyness. "Yet if I am to no longer remember than then I will not be as wise as I am today."

"You don't understand."

"That I may not, however, you must understand that I know."

Running his tongue over cracked lips the speaker reaches out to set a gnarled hand of the young girl's head before him.

"We all must live with the past, Elewn. Making sure not to let it simply shape our future. Even I, old as I am have things I look back on with regret time to time-"

"See?!"

The man simply holds up a finger to quiet her.

"But I embrace my mistakes and do not wished for them to be erased."