[ X’rhun knows by now what pieces Ardyn adds to the conversation just to be frustrating and which pieces are worth keeping, examining, and addressing. It is why his first statement is left unremarked upon, to float into the aether and be forgotten, but the rest, well. The rest is very much worth addressing. ]

I cannot claim to know your thoughts on your appearance here, my friend, or what you intend to do about it, if anything. In fact, I suspect that you yourself are still working through your feelings on the matter, which is why I thought to offer you options one way or another without the pressure of choice.

[ Ardyn had always been so fixated on the end that had not come, snatched away by and imagined Storm or the hands of kidnappers unknown, and now that he has been snatched away after it has come to pass, X’rhun cannot begin to imagine where that leaves him. ]

... You know I am willing to listen, should you need it.