Hearing that sentiment makes Trahearne momentarily fall quiet, his gaze shifting away from the Fool to one of the windows. He could have argued, and spoke of how he'd alienated most other sylvari through his work, but that wouldn't change how close to the heart of the matter the Fool had managed to strike.

"I'm supposed to be dead. Such a thing would have been denied to me either way. I do feel like... like I've been cheated out of my deserved rest. If there was an afterlife for me, I expected one where I'd be able to greet the friends that came before me. Yet I found myself here instead, and I still don't know if this was some cosmic accident, or if there is something more I'm meant to do."