"Finlay, I do not think you understand just how many years I have lived in the mortal world," he said. "When the Romans came to Londinium I already lived among the Picts. When they built the great wall I watched their folly. I moved through the continent fleeing the arms of the church. I went to America when it was little more than a tobacco garden planted among the natives' crops. Hundreds of years. Thousands, my friend. What I recall of home is so very distant," Willy explained.