[ It's funny, hearing humans talk about such numbers, throwing them around like they have some monumental significance, as though those ten thousand years would pass as slowly as a being with such a fleeting lifespan would perceive them. ]

I've heard humans claim death brings meaning to the experience of life. That it must get tiring living after a while. Those are tales you tell yourselves to feel better about an end you cannot avoid. I would have wished to live as long as I was still of more use to His Majesty alive.