Teja gives a brief huff that might even be the beginning of a laugh, not taken further, as he does not laugh.

"I have been here for four and a half years, to count the time in this place," he says, "and I have grown used to my loss. Indeed, those of my people that survived, were allowed to leave the battlefield and go north to where we had come from, and are flourishing well into your time. Knowing they went free and lived made my death more than worth the while."