If in ten years I can force my way out of this world, it will be worth it. The moment I am free, is the moment that I am no longer held within this form like a prison made of flesh and bone.

However, seeing as there has not been any otherworlders that have expired of old age—at least as far as I am aware—does not mean it cannot happen. Have you noticed a great deal of them are fairly young? Or, if they are like us, they bear a youthful form? I have met merely two possessed of a body further along in age than I.

As for my asking Dirk of his assistance—you must understand the situation is far more complex than what you are taking it for. He and I had started our courtship ere your arrival, and little did I plan to abandon it when he is a wellspring of information on this world. Likewise of its limitations...we are also coworkers, as you were made aware of yesterday. Which complicated matters, seeing as you are decidedly not.