You speak from experience.

[ It isn't a question, for Merlin himself hasn't left room for it to be one. ]

Tell me, then, how is it that you would peaceably carve a place for yourself in a world which would reject all that you are?

[ His interest is genuine, just as his smile is distinctly empathetic, but more than that his golden eyes seem to ask: just what sort of person are you?. ]