Every way is the worst way imaginable when it comes to achieving immortality. I've never met or heard of anyone who got and and did not eventually give it up. [Sir Nicholas Flamel, for instance. The third brother who eventually stopped hiding from Death. People who live forever get lonely. Those who want to live forever and are cruel just get vanquished, eventually.]

Ugh - [ deep breath, righteous ramble incoming: ] look, miss, if you've done the best you could and kept to whatever your morality dictated by talking to him, then it is what it is. I would not listen to anyone telling you you made a mistake by showing a stranger kindness. There's nothing to say they would not have done the same, because everyone wants answers here. Everyone wants to be the smartest, the one with the clever exit or the solution to all the mysteries we've encountered.

Sorry, I'm not actually trying to scold you, it's just that you were sounding a bit put down and we should be thanking you for the supplies and the...the initiative, and all.