"Most Uhran soldiers don't live beyond twenty five," Tolten said with another small shrug. He knew that in mind and heart he was still very much a young man, but he wasn't in years. Oh, perhaps comparatively speaking in regards to some, but considering how many times he ought to have been dead over the past two years....

"And honestly, other than the small matter we've been discussing, there's little the world has to offer that I haven't ended up experiencing. With or without my intention."

There was that, of course. He had seen things few others had ever imagined. He had lived through great wonders and terrible horrors and he had lived to tell the tales. He had visited Eastern Temples! And fought their guardians! He had passed his hand through a doorway that led to another world! He had seen the Tower of Mirrors....

And he had touched the Light.

"I have had a very full life. And even here, I see and experience things that change me and touch me. For better or for worse."