She told me that, as you get older, somewhere around the mid-millennium mark, albas develop a deep insight. ‘What kind of insight?’ ‘It’s incredible. Like a third eye. The feeling for time becomes so profound that inside a single moment you can see everything. You can see the past and the future. It is as though everything stops and, for just that moment, you know how everything is going to be.’ ‘And is that good? It sounds horrifying.’ ‘It’s not good or horrifying. It just is. It’s just an incredibly powerful feeling, neither good or bad, where everything becomes clear.’
