I do hope you're right. Our best menders are seeing to her, so - now that the threat has passed, Mother will have time to heal.

[It's a bit of a somber topic, so Trahearne is happy to move on to their other question.]

You might be surprised. The Pale Tree is well over two hundred years old, but us sylvari are quite new to Tyria. I am the oldest of the Firstborn, and I have only seen twenty-six summers.

[More accurately, he was the oldest before he died, but that thought honestly hadn't crossed his mind yet.]