[ well his ex did just send basically his father figure to deliver the message "kill yourself" which he then decided to do, so he would argue that perhaps it was, at worst, comparing a bad day at the office to a car accident in ye olde fantasy terms but

he still looks mildly shocked, and then extremely guilty. his hands start to fidget and he shuffles a foot, a little tangled up in Thoughts about that. ]

Right, I-- [ his mouth pulls to one side. ] I did fully intend to aide you with that. I'm sorry to have left before I could. I had a spell I was working on, and of course I wasn't there yet. Seems silly, really. The kind of thing I could cast without a thought only but a few years ago, but seems perhaps much farther away now [ realizing he's rambling ] but, ah. A large, burning column of light that burns like the sun. Sounds helpful, dealing with a vampiric lord, no? Aha.