"Or maybe you are just too trusting yourself," Jan suggested. "Making friends with our stalkers, letting me live to become immortal ... You seem to have survived it so far, but ... Don't trust them too much."

It was rather strange to be worried about another immortal, one older and much fitter than himself at that, but he couldn't help it. Benjamin wasn't just an old friend, he was someone from his own time, the only one left alive that had known him before his death.