"It's a long story," Bel deflected. "But I ended up as a caravan guard who happened to be a bystander while a cult was messily self-destructing, and decided getting the human child they were hailing as a prophet out of there was better than getting paid. After that, it was mostly figuring out what I needed to do next."

The story, without context, made Bel look like more of a hero than he felt like, but Keyleth's reaction might tell him about the drow of her world.