"There's always time, isn't there? I went to Odom's Spire once - time outside of time - and saw everything that has been and everything that ever will be. It was weird. I saw my parents on the night I was born, and saw the Fantomaya put Boa's spirit into me." She shook her head, remembering the three wise women that had traveled from the Abarat to her world, the Hereafter, so that their dead princess might live again in another child. "It must be hard. Outliving everyone you love. I've always felt bad for immortal things. I think that's why dragons in the Abarat eventually grow ruthless and murder people. They're nearly immortal, you see, unless you can destroy their hearts."