Simon just snorts humorlessly. "Well, that's great for them a hundred years from now but perspective isn't all that useful in the short term." He still has to survive the next two months, much less the next century.

"Besides," he says pointedly, "Technology being what it is, we could all live to a hundred and fifty. Or they could be, I don't know. Vampires." He laughs like it's all one big joke.