"I found people worth waiting eight hundred years to see again." Malik admitted, "Though I have no guarantee it will work, it does not prevent me from being killed."

His recent death proved that rather pointedly, and he's very aware that there are some things that just can't be healed from.

"That and I have a great urge to yell at our distant successors over some of their decisions, and I cannot do that very effectively as a ghost."