It's my family's business to purposefully know very little about such things. [...] I always thought it was a loss. To disregard creatures that lived for so long, knew so much, held so much power, see through so many things, intelligent enough to develop their own language and thoughts and desires... simply because they were "dangerous".
[...] [:Da] But you do understand me, though. I wasn't sure if, after all these years, I was even pronouncing the words correctly.