[He missed being relevant - but in many ways his worth and potency were anchored out there in the open ocean, as a part of him would ever be. The question was not so simple as Archie seemed to suggest, however. Norrington knew his body had been consigned to the sea. When he returned home he faced an eternity in its care. To bemoan his hours left on land would be to express a desire for the alternative. How could he possibly explain all of this to Archie, here and now? And so it was that he fell back on a feeble ambiguity.]
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I cannot say.