The world’s been kinder to me. And I feel a bit silly and ashamed to not have understood that before.” “It wasn’t silly. How could you have known without seeing it for yourself? And you certainly shouldn’t feel ashamed; it’s not as though it’s your fault that I get looked at funny for being Shinn, or that Silt had a rough childhood, or that Mash’s daughter was stolen. And there’s no inherent virtue in suffering.”