Ah, a dangerous question. One that melts away those small buds of observable emotions from the Ascian's face. Watch closely and you might even catch the smallest flinch. Then, the book is closed, though the question is answered.

"We were mankind, Warrior of Light. We slept, we ate. Eventually we died and returned to aether just like all life on our Star. The three of us who survived ascended to immortality as a necessity for our goal of restoring our world and people." And then rose the others to such a state over the course of millennia.

"And if you are asking whether we suffered the same suffering that can inflict by depriving others of food, then no. I have no recollection of it. If someone suffered a lack to their basic needs, it was provided and shared. Such cruelties are of mortal make.

...If nothing more, should Q'uila had wondered if Elidibus- this Elidibus- now had some of his memories returned, it seems the answer is yes.