Decades? His brow furrows slightly at that. Then again, he supposes decades don't seem as long to the fae, do they? Not when they live as long as they do. So he doesn't push, nods slightly at the question instead.

"I am," he allows. "I have good friends who saw to that."

After all, he can't be entirely sure he would be if he was left in the care of those vampires much longer. They might have kept him alive, for information or bargaining, but they also might have simply removed him as an inconvenience.