"More like reincarnation, yes. Whenever I die I'm reborn in a new body with the memories of all the previous lives." There's no point in hiding it. It doesn't matter in a place like this - aside from the whole 'void-active planet', he's hardly the oldest person on the train.

(He's amused at how the train is counting biological rather than actual age, but he's not complaining.)

"I've been doing it for over fifty five hundred years. I've seen more things than a lot of people can imagine. Unimaginable cruelty and incomparable kindness both. I've seen what humans are capable of - but I'd still rather have them make their own destinies than have them dictated by someone else."