The comment about war being rendered useless by immortality made a very old part of Abel start laughing almost hysterically. The idea of that was just too funny to even respond to for a long moment before Abel could pull himself back together. This woman was obviously nothing more than a child.

"War is human nature and being immortal would not stop it. Instead it would only make it worse," he answered, looking frighteningly serious. "Humanity as a whole does not deserve the option of making their own balance of life and death. Like many things, they would too destroy that."