I swear it made sense at the time. I just kind of wish it was true, a better idea of what I was getting myself into would have been nice. Don't get me wrong, I'd still do it in a heartbeat, but what's that phrase? "Forewarned is forearmed?" Or something.

[Thanks to his dad, Mark's actually going to live to be thousands of years. But because his mom's human and he grew up on Earth, that's still very much an abstract concept for him right now. Get back to him in about 500 years.]