[ Kind... he's almost sick of hearing anything he says is kind. These are such average, unremarkable sentiments, like how someone doesn't deserve to be exiled for the circumstances of their birth.

He sighs, his usually immaculate manners cracking slightly. ]

So you were taught that there is so much you don't deserve. Isn't it likely that someone only told you as much because they feared you? Or wished to keep you low?

[ Or because it served their interests, or because of simple bitterness, a desire to bring others down beneath them? There are so many possible reasons. ]

Why believe such things?