[He thinks he's starting to get a bit clearer of a picture, but he reserves judgement until he's spoken with Zulf too.]

...You sound as if it was an event before your time.

[The look Nathaniel receives holds no condemnation, but it is perhaps almost eerie to see someone who appears barely into adulthood giving the sort of somber expression that would be more at home on the face of someone more than twice his apparent age.]

...Perhaps you unintentionally opened an old wound that has not had the time to truly heal. Memories of pain that the older generation has kept from you.