"Ah. Feeling useless can be a hard thing to come to terms with. Though often enough feeling useless is not the same as being useless and I severly doubt that you are not of much use here, my lady." There is sympathy in his voice but a distinct lack of pity if one was familiar with the particular distinctions between those things. "Not long at all... or at least not the way I see it. Just since the end of summer... so a couple of months at most. Barely any time at all."

But he's well aware humans might see it differently.