Nobility was nothing to do with birthright. Elijah could attest to that more than anyone else. There was nothing noble about his birth. He'd been born in a hut, not even a shack, to a pair of parents who were peasants by all accounts. They were no one's lord or lady. They were only---Esther and Mikael.
Esther used the Dart Arts to make her family more than they were. She had raised them up by burying them low. All of them were lower than the lowest creature on the face of their world. It was disgusting, what they were, but Elijah could not change it. All he could do was embrace it.
Rejecting what he was helped no one. It saved no one. His family did not benefit from his rejection of their fate. Elijah had to do the best he could to be as good as his new life would allow him to be.
He tried.
That was all he could do.
Licking the drop of blood away, Elijah wiped his hands on his pocket handkerchief to display perfectly healed hands with no wounds. There was no such thing as a wound to him. His family knew the Dark Arts. They could create pain, wounds, death in a way no one else could even imagine. No one could even stand beside his mother or his father in their viciousness.
This young man seemed dark enough to understand what it was to walk the same road.
Elijah pitied him.
"I know that better than any others. I have walked too many roads alone to remember them all. I wish you a safe journey. May we meet again."
There was nothing about this young man which suggested to him he was evil in a way which Elijah of all creatures should reject him. The rejection of his offer was not offensive. It was smart in its own way. Noble. People who could stand tall on their own were worth some measure of leniency.
It was wise to think better of them than they might have deserved.
"Best of luck to you."
Elijah wouldn't offer his assistance again, but he would be willing to extend the hand of friendship once more. Everyone needed friends. Even immortal monsters. There were no creatures great enough to stand wholly alone who breathed---even if their breathing was purely for show or out of habit.