The very matter-of-fact way she said that made him arch an eyebrow, sliding down from his hiding place to land nearby to her - for a man who'd spent the best part of his life underground, he made that look almost graceful.
"Not many people can speak of darkness like that. You might just be quite unique amongst the rest of humanity." If he thought about it, which he was often given to do, this 'unique' quality might serve as a kind of inspiration...