I believe it is more often kismesises who come together under such circumstances...

[But there's a voice lecturing in the back of his mind, faint but still there in his memories after all these years.]

But.... It's true. The kind of pity and love most trolls aspire to does work past obstacles like this..

[And that's all he can admit. To go further, to try and actually challenge the beliefs that have been carved into him since childhood... He cannot do that.]