[ Guess who else is depressed? This guy, standing right here, his expression growing increasingly more distressed the more Roland talks. Not like obviously so, because after 80-some years of constant loss, you learn to rein in your outward emotions, but enough that some of it shows on his face.

He's sorry, too, for making this man repeat a clearly unpleasant story. ]

Just because it's common doesn't make it any easier to swallow. Emotions are complex things and hard to control even during the best of times.

[ Sorry, he will continue to be a reasonable human being because it's either that or finding some trauma hole of his own to stick his head into, and that's not happening just quite yet. ]

Are you planning on keeping them [ with a nod towards the gloves ] despite everything?