I am not clinging to the past! It's not true, nothing you've told me is... is truth...

[Except it is truth, a truth he'd like so much to deny. But he can't. No matter what he does, no matter how far he runs, he can't get away from the fact of what's happened to him. He can't deny that he's died and returned, a revenant in actuality.]

Perhaps that was my fate all along, before this. I've died in another world, after all, just before I arrived... and that had nothing to do with the dragons. But I truly wish it hadn't happened here.

[Now that he's drawn her attention in such a way, he'll never be rid of her and he hates that so much.]

Then what do you want of me, if not to kill me? Why do you endlessly torment me?