For a time Yue made no response to that, though in the silence the soft rustle of feather against feather could be heard as he shifted his wings in an attempt to hide the way they were trembling slightly. "In the time I am from, I've known you longer than you have known me," he observed finally, his attention ostensibly fixed on the floor.

When he tried to think of how to continue that, however, he only froze: what was he to do, tell his entire life story in order to explain? That wasn't likely, not when he didn't want to think about...certain things, not right now. He was already on edge enough to have spoken when he didn't wish to and said more than intended.