[The first part gets a short, sharp laugh out of him, but not exactly a denial. That's exactly the sort of thing he'd attempt to do under most circumstances.

As for the rest... It gets him to settle and glance away for a moment before he corrects it. Talking about this is... difficult, really. He hasn't ever sat down and tried to process all of it, he's simply kept himself moving so he didn't have to think about it.

But now, being faced with it like this...]

You do have a rather distinctive appearance. I wasn't certain initially... but truthfully, I didn't want to consider it.

[What it meant that Raven was there, in the guilds, or what it meant that there was someone else going through the same thing. Perhaps, in some way, he was terrified that it would end like this - where they'd have to actually address all of this.]

Much of my time has been spent gathering information, and somewhere along the way I became certain I was right. But even so, what good would it to do discuss it? It... happened, and we're entirely different people now.

[And maybe that would be true if all ties to that life had been completely discarded, but that isn't the case for either of them, is it?]