[Trahearne's gaze follows the movement, making him frown faintly now that he's paying more attention to those markings. That's what he had assumed it was, but now Padparadscha seemed to be implying that those were something a little more damaging. Old wounds, perhaps?]

One of the tenets my people follow says that 'harder ground makes for stronger roots'. Our struggles make us stronger, but it also means that what you achieve is all the more precious for it.