[Yuan holds back that he wouldn't have bled if he had been a little more prepared; he bites down the half-elf bitterness, because everyone in this room cannot now have missed that he is a half-elf.]

[He doesn't want to say anything about having been a slave, either.]

I could have joined the ranks. I wanted more than that.

[He hesitates, grimacing, and nods to that general.]

Yes. That is... why I'm here. They did not prove to be worth my death, as well.