"Ah." He nods, seized by a stroke of sympathy.

"Perhaps you haven't spent enough time considering all the misfortunes you've averted for yourself in the future? And all the pleasures he can no longer enjoy, severed from them as he is - although I suppose we're short on pleasures to indulge in. Still. You continue, he does not. You enjoy the privilege of outliving an annoyance. It's not such a common thing, for you quick-blooded mortals."