"It's not one of the things that water typically does."

There are, of course, the persistent rumors of fountains of youth, even in Druitt's world. But there's never been any direct proof of one having been found either. Otherwise he would have spent a good deal more time seeing what could have been made of same, and he rather doubts that he would have been the only one of Five to do so either. After all, he can't imagine that James had found the suit that had granted him immortality to be terribly comfortable, even though it had undeniably worked.

Still, he doesn't so much as bat an eye at Altaïr's implication that he'd died, and he offers a shrug in return.

"I can think of worse places to be, yes."

He's still not thrilled about life in the village. But it certainly beats being dead, that much he has to agree.