Most stories worth telling are.

[Long, that is. More complicated than they may be expected to be. And he imagines that whatever is happening here, whatever this place is, or what lies between this young man and himself and the millennia that apparently separate them, yes, it seems like it must be quite a story.]

I'm certain you must be. My own ego aside, the Lions would not choose a paladin lightly.

[He wants to believe that anyway.]