Yes, it was very strange, every word spoken increasingly familiar. Surely this...time loop, as they said, couldn't explain it, could it? Her face was nowhere in those memories. Perhaps the tadpole was wriggling about in his skull, affecting his perception of reality.

"That's quite, mm, magnanimous of you." That might almost sound like sarcasm, because That's Just How Astarion Talks, but his expression was quite serious. The unique viewpoint of being an elf--or, you know, other very long lived species, cough-- living primarily among humans was difficult for anyone that had not or could not experience it to understand. "They're rather like children, aren't they."