"Aeryn, I am immortal - half a year is the blink of an eye to me. On the other hand, I am a person, and in that half-year or a bit more since I had to give up on Lochiel, very many things happened to me, the best of them a certain pretty kitchen faun named Gil," Asar-Suti says. "So, on the one hand, I am over that defeat; and on the other, I will never quite be."