"It is no hardship for me," Michael assures him.

And, for someone who is not limited to existence in one place and time, this is entirely true.

"And you, in the meantime, might wish to revisit how humanity reassures itself of its existence. And what the concept of respite means. God's children do not survive well in a vacuum, literal or metaphorical."

She could mention Brownian motions of society, too, but refrains.

For now.