[ That's generally not the reaction such a disclosure gets, but it works. Better than awkward sympathy. ]

I was asleep for most for most of it. Some humans stumbled into my castle and woke me up, and the last thing I remembered before that was the destruction of my planet.

[ And death of her father, but that's even more depressing. And if her story is a bit of a cliche, well, she doesn't know that. ]

Where are you from?