[Some deficits acquired through neglect were permanent, that much is true. Illarion nods to this, although--]

We are in the Waking World. Much more may be possible here, if you seek it.

Still, I am taking your meaning. You would also not be having time for much else, in the pursuit of this form.

[The difference in Nehan's attitude and outlook, having shed... He knows that shift, from the inside; being alive again had made so much more seem possible and worthwhile. (And given him a distressing level of self-regard.)

Witnessing it in another pulls at him. He wants this change to remain--and if that isn't the world's will, he wants to fix what he can.]

I will still help, with what you do wish to have. If you do not remain this way.