[He really should be used to it--any royal court is just a live-action soap opera. Maybe he just doesn't remember it that well, yet....]

[He actually winces briefly.]

That... well, I wasn't in my right mind at the time. I was fevered and worked up and we ended up in a ridiculous brawl.

[He's probably heard tell of how Shen became a wild, flapping, incoherent ball of feathery rage....]

It's... more or less behind us, now.