[And Drizzt puts a psychic protection on his side of the conversation, half to demonstrate that he can and half to gently protect the topic of his father from being overheard.]

So to speak, yes, but I have come to realize that no speech is more intimate than that of the mind. I can convey emotion with it in a way that my voice cannot, almost as if projecting a part of myself to the other person. It has helped my father, but it is also not enough.

I need to do more for him, and I am the only one he will trust, save perhaps another that is not here. My father is strong, but he has also been through more than any soul should rightfully bear. I wish to give him some measure of peace now that he is away from the evil that ruled his life, and for a time, my own, before.

[Drizzt does hold back with the specifics, but there is love behind that. Love and a resolute need to protect.]