I shouldn't laugh, but I know I'm a failure in your eyes
It was somewhat different to that (the heralds, Ronin had gotten the impression, were keen for release after 300 years as well, but it was a complicated mess and he hadn't asked questions about it), but conversation settles instead into starry shorelines and life as it had been in the sky, and he lets it. "Mm, you've got it in one," he says softly. Even if he hadn't been alone - Vanya had been with him - but that isn't part of the story that he's keen to share with a relative stranger.
"Mm...?" Had his appearance been different? Ronin laughs, gazing down at himself. "Yes and no?" he says. "I look the same as I always have, so that didn't change at all. But when I got back it was like... a new start, I suppose. Every scar and freckle was gone, every bit of training I'd done as a soldier had been wiped away. I have never felt so weak. It took a long time to get back in shame."
"Mm...?" Had his appearance been different? Ronin laughs, gazing down at himself. "Yes and no?" he says. "I look the same as I always have, so that didn't change at all. But when I got back it was like... a new start, I suppose. Every scar and freckle was gone, every bit of training I'd done as a soldier had been wiped away. I have never felt so weak. It took a long time to get back in shame."
RONIN
