[ Cayde pulls up video feed because it just... feels like the right thing to do here? A face feels appropriate to talking about this, even if he's trying to make light of it.]

Thanks. I'm alright. It's just not a secret to anybody where I come from, so I figured it's fair to lay down some ground floor material I'm used to everybody having already anyway. I'm a couple centuries old, and it's all behind me.

[ Or at least, that's what he's going to say here to somebody he just met. ]

Point is: I've got a bit of a grudge about people taking other selfaware beings and wiping out memory and sense of self and all that jazz. Any of that becomes a real threat to you again, you tell me and I'll do what I can to help you.

Not that I'm not a selfless, generous, high spirited kind of guy giving the galaxy the shirt off my back to begin with, but this one's personal.

[ If he makes jokes, that helps make it less so. Right? Right. ]