"It is not in thy nature to react as she sometimes did," he leans over to kiss Laertes' cheek in turn. "Bors was most often right, except for the last time. I think he tried to help me then, too, but I would hear no one." This last is a little more subdued; he has come a very long way from the roiling, painful nothing he felt during his last weeks at Camelot. He usually simply tries not to think about that time.