This is not what I'd have guessed I'd be doing ten years ago. Or last year. [He blinks his inner eyelids and falters for a moment, then surges back.] C'est la vie! ...I should try and get that in Sindarin.

Sounds like cheating, to me! [Julien flashes his not-teeth in a smile.] Nah, nah. Double mythic - I read a book as a kid where a wizard would age backwards, and then reverse, and have it pretty much indefinite. Which sounds like it'd be a pain. I guess stasis is better?