[My, this fellow sure is cynical! Or... bitter,, perhaps. Not that Solomon will hold it against him - life shaped people in many different ways.]

Lucky? Hmm. I wonder.

[Time had done quite a lot to help, at least... or perhaps they were all just getting better at hiding now.

His motions slow to a halt.]

Magic speaks in many sorts of ways. It's never easy to have to learn its meanings through another's mistakes.

Do you hold resentment for this world, demanding what it does of you?