"Balance? Balance?! What was there to balance? We weren't some duo walking hand in hand- we were bound together by our own entrails, sucking the others' air, pulled down by the dead weight of one another to drown in the Seas of Oblivion!"

He's angry. Not angry at her, but he doesn't for a moment try to spare her feelings by masking the pain he still feels and remembers after ages and ages of trying to forget.

Because as hard as you try to forget, you know you have to remember. Have to remember, so the elf-worm can feed, and grow...