Time takes us all, it's true. In one way or another.

[ It's easier to talk about himself when he's only revealing half-truths, when he's manipulating the situation to get the answers he wants and needs. ]

And the dead here deserve better, absolutely. A life spent mastering the secrets of the universe, you said. But this isn't exactly mastery is it? Mastery would be stopping her entirely, but of course, she's powerful, ridiculously so.