Guessing the rebirth process just takes a while. Makes sense it is a giant phoenix...but yeah that was a while.

[It was an eternity in a fight. A week-long siege was not something he had fully understood until they were in the middle of it.]

Here's hoping we don't have to deal with any more sieges. Can't say if that will happen or not. The islands we see seem pretty varied. Monsun was completely different from Chol.