Mmhmm. That we were taken there at all is a...complicated tale. But I spent five years there, and that our fates turned out to be intertwined during that time was no coincidence. But I and my comrades were not of that shard, and the manner in which we were taken there had rendered us...incomplete. It would have torn our souls asunder to have remained for much longer.

[He shrugs slightly.]

Bixing saw a memory of her, those few sennights ago. Not one I'm proud of by any means, and certainly not one I would've cared for anyone to witness, but — I couldn't even bring myself to be angry about it. I was too caught up just with seeing her face again.