He didn't remember how long he had been talking to that woman. He even forgot that he was still in the ascetic phase and was currently immersed in the Lake of Stars. What the woman had said earlier was true; no matter how much time they spent together, it felt like only one second had passed.
Time was too short for both of them.
Without their knowledge, time passed there day by day, week by week, and month by month. Dirga heard all the stories about them from that woman; there were lots of stories because their souls had lived for hundreds of years before he finally reached his thousandth life, while the woman would enter the same lifetime later.
The woman knows everything. Since their initial meeting in their first life, in a world so foreign to the other side of the universe, they have lived as grandparents who have lived for so long and only spent time together when one of them was about to die.
