Draiss calmly countered that the war had sharpened his skills considerably, especially the two weeks fighting to the lizard's massive palace, let alone the near day it took to get to the right room. Most of the abilities, he claimed, had come to him after he had died and had time to analyze what he had learned with the days of near constant combat, when he wasn't watching suns being born, or the like. He flat out refused to talk about how he came back, and after several pushes, he calmly countered that he wasn't asking why her people had stayed in that forest, so unless she wanted to stop prying where he didn't want to talk, he would start prying back.