Oh. So you’re experienced with it, then.

My mistake, of course. If you’ve suffered it before then I imagine you’re perfectly equipped to endure it all over and over and— over again.

[He tips his chin cordially, bowing low. Deferential, though he knows exactly how cruel he’s being, no efforts made to mask it.]

My sincerest apologies.

I’m used to being one of a rare few immortal creatures in my world. It does tend to evoke a certain amount of presumption on my part.