[That he's learned such a guarded look already at his age just makes Cor's heart ache.It's so very familiar, something he had learned himself at a similar age.]

It is a harsh world indeed that demands such things. I hope, whatever else you have endured, that you are not alone facing it.

[If Regis hadn't brought him into his circle after that massacre at the Tempering grounds who knows what differences there would have been. If he hadn't had the unyielding support of his Prince and his Shield... Well it was very likely that he would never have made it to the age he had. All that reckless anger of his youth with nothing to temper it.]