...Oooo.

Smirk.

Something to investigate. 

Perhaps.

"You aren't curious?"

"Mm. If the opportunity arises. But I do not see value in forcing the matter."

"Why not?"

"I am friendly with Domhildr for other reasons, and I have other interests to occupy what time we share together and my time alone. This question... is not pressing."

"She won't live forever, you know."

"...No. But neither are dwarves so fleeting as Men."

"How old is she?"

"Just past her first century, I believe."

"You'll probably have another century and a half with her then. Two, if you're lucky."

She almost says it gently. 

"I am aware."

"A very small arc of infinity."

"Mm. So the world goes, in most respects."

"Unless we seize more than we are given."

"Historically, that path ends in death as well."

"And so we'd need to overturn the arc of history as well."

"A weighty proposition."

"So is much of what we do."

"Perhaps."

Small hum.

Then shall they begin the experimentation?

Absolutely.