"I wonder if there's more than one way to be immortal?" Reshad muses. It's not as random a question as it appears.

"Jedao had come back a minimum of three times, in my era," she explains. "Real details are thin on the deck, but history shows him well past when he could have been kept alive. If he failed in a way that got him immortality..." She trails off, and sips her arak again, this time taking a substantial amount of it.