... I would like to see the ocean, perhaps.
But this world seems to lack that as well.

[All they've got is the huge lake in Solarpeak... the rest of the world is barred thanks to whatever happened in Ellipsa's past to create those dark lands at the edges of the segments.
Part of them wonders what it'd be like to live a million years here. It's much larger than the Everhood had been.]

You are an optimistic person. Filled with a hope I have not seen in many thousands of years.
I understand now why Duval trusts you enough to turn me in your direction as I stood at death's door.

Try not to lose such a human trait, if you can.