It seemed strange to look back at the way he acted in the past and see what would likely have been a meteoric rise and fall in career and-- well, existence. He was by no means safe with his own life, but he wasfar ahead of himself now. Beyond himself and what he would reap as a matter of the actions he had taken.

For all of his foolishness in Luceti, he was sure that he was assured a longer life than what he had in his own world.

...There was that morbid humor again.

"I don't know about 'a whole damn lot,' but I agree that everyone changes by being here. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse."