If there is a trap in Sparhawk's words, he's walking into it himself. And he might as well be mad, for even beginning to think of a reconciliation.

"The past cannot be forgotton, but it can be left in the past, where it belongs," Sparhawk has tried to do this, but old prejudices are hard to discard. "There is no middle ground for us, I think, there has been too much between us. I cannot simply forget that you existed, and are here again."

He thinks that he might leave this story out, should he ever return to his own world.

"Presumptuous or not, would it be something that you might consider?"