[ He always tries so hard, it's... charming (?) in its own way. Also bemusing. ]

I was quite celebrated as a gentle lady, as a saintess. My responsibilities... were to ease what suffering I could and then to die and leave nothing behind me when our world burned.

[ She comes closer to him, letting the last book slip out of her hand and back into its pile. ]

Lord Dreus is... dead now, but the Admiral has intervened in my martyrdom.

[ Where does all this fit in the story he is trying to tell her? ]