[Dignity is obtained a beat later, when the dragon has mind enough to provide a decent answer.]

...I could not follow into the Dwemer tower near Markarth and voiced my objections. My reward for speaking out of turn was to be ignored for days. Tol mey. It has been five sunrises and four sunsets already, and the mountain goats are becoming a nuisance to count.

[He's waited so patiently, and no one but this other self has bothered to come.]