"You do not understand my enthusiasm! I have spent centuries dwelling behind others as I tried to find that inspiration to write again and it not be a disaster." He sounded so...old. He was. He was pretty old, but not as old as some of the others.
He took a moment in her response, it not exactly quite the exciting one he was hoping for. "What of your parents? Surely, you have a love of books and history and the literary world. You had to have gotten it from somewhere."