It's...
To be cliche, it's complicated.
Lending an ear may ease the burden, but it won't do anything to change what is in place.
It's an inevitability.
Either that, or it's something that is out of the dragon's control. Either way, it's almost certainly best to keep him alone. +
𝘜𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘴
If there is a curse or ill that might befall him, he need not face it alone. There is much a talented healer might do to free him from such a thing.
...And if the threat is internal, a friendly ear can often reinforce the will to change.
Gil'ellian Greydove
Everyone.
He's a ticking bomb, and the further away he is from civilization, the better.
𝘜𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘴
Safer for whom?
Gil'ellian Greydove
It's safer this way.
𝘜𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘴
Not the safest way to pass his days - but they're hardly one to speak.
Gil'ellian Greydove
Probably for the best. The dragonborn is similarly thinking of other things, burning the time away in the nearby woods.