The group of Minos and Tiolos understood this man's warnings as they should, listening to him solemnly, anxious about the future ahead.
The years of travel across the Violent Sea didn't seem so long when one was talking about a journey of a few years. Everyone in that group had lived for at least a few centuries; years were nothing to them. But a dangerous journey could make a brief interval of time seem interminable to the souls taking the risk.