Ten years about does for a man there.

It's a short spell." Maraton sighed.

"Yet they endure," he muttered to himself.
"Yet they endure," Aaron echoed.

"Can't you see why?
Don't you know that it is because they haven't heard the word--the one great word?
That's what they're waiting for--for the prophet to open their eyes and lead them out of the wilderness.

Only just at first it may be that even his voice will sound in vain.