Oh yeah? What makes them so awesome? [It's not at all sarcastic, he's genuinely asking. If Flynn says they're great, then they must be.]

I know, I know, but what happens a hundred years from now? Five hundred? What if I live to be a million? Further than that? And everyone I know and love would be like...the tiniest blip of a memory? That's what made my dad the way he was. Regular mortal life was just so fleeting for him he couldn't put any value to it. [He felt a bloom of rage when he thought about his mom.] Ordinary people, his own children were nothing to him.