Ten times over ten thousand years? Such restraint seems admirable.

[ Armand can understand it; once in five hundred years is not a dissimilar trajectory. But it's interesting, and an honour to be handed these pieces of John's life, to be granted his Lord's envy. So he handles the details carefully as he commits them to memory.

He continues thoughtfully, holding John's dark gaze. ]

How many of them thanked you for it? Your ten disciples.