"It wasn't something that was done frequently, and there were always risks. Ascending me wasn't even really a popular move." He moves over to the counter, as if he can lean against it. As if that part of him is really here.

"Ascended beings - well, you know." He spreads an incorporeal hand wide, his tone derisive and brittle. "Meant to study the universe. See everything, understand it. We're not meant to care what happens on a lower plane. Meant to be above it."