"Well, that's...convenient." Maybe the fact that his best friend was almost a hundred years old made it easier to accept Stephen's apparent immortality without blinking an eyelash. "Gonna be a bitch eventually, if you live long enough, but you probably don't need me to tell you that." Pop culture was full of stories about the perils of immortality.

"So basically Dumbledore?" Yeah, okay, Sam couldn't really stop with the Harry Potter comparisons.