[ If they didn't have them before, then they do now. Which means that G'raha is also taking a moment to take a swallow or two himself. ]

We miscalculated and I went sent a hundred years before I needed to be. Thus I found myself bound to the Crystal Tower. We changed the course of history, but the price was a slow crystallization, not dissimilar from a form of necrosis. I had to use aether to keep my limbs moving which, naturally, sped up the process.