"I didn't realize... that it was that awful." Or what the scars came from, honestly. He hadn't asked; he'd thought it private, considering what some of them looked like, and Ronan's own respect toward the scars Rhy never talks about.

"In your past, that memory--" He shudders. Is it always like that? He understands now, at least a little bit, why Ronan insists on sending him back to his own room at night, no matter how much Rhy had hinted or even outright asked about wanting to stay.

"I'm sorry that you have to contend with that sort of darkness in your dreams."