"But not every death is final. I understood completely how the primal gnomes felt, when I returned to life her

"But not every death is final. I understood completely how the primal gnomes felt, when I returned to life here, in the House at the Edge of Time. The Host didn't lie — I'm connected to the First World. And this connection is something more than just a chance to die a little less fully than the denizens of the Material Plane. The First World is now... inside me. It's an eternal, seething, ever-changing. And it protects me from the Bleaching better than any magic."