"I only want to hear the truth. So thank you. For letting me know. For believing me."

It's definitely easier to believe when it's happening now to them both. Had they been in back in Tellius, Ranulf might be looking at him like he'd come completely unglued. Would he believe him then? Soren continues, not minding at all that Ranulf is still touching him when it brings him so much comfort he didn't know he'd been needing. And it's... oddly rewarding? To be regarded like this by one of the laguz, as though his mark doesn't bother him at all...

"You were mentioning something about a trip. What were you doing before you were brought here?"

OH, SOREN... YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU MISSED. Or... haven't lived through yet??