Food, shelter, interesting experiences interspersed with all the free time to read that I could ask for.

[ He relays this cheerfully, as though it gives no indication of the hardships he had been enduring in his own story. ]

The deterioration of my body also seems to have stopped. [ He walks with a cane, he doesn't consider this comment to give away too much. ] Time was always such a relentless actor upon me, and now it is... diffuse, distant.