“How do you age here? Your children? You all live for so long, but… are you born, and then you stay a child for a hundred years, or…?” He shook his head. “A child is vulnerable. Weaker than an adult. Too liable to be picked off by predators. Our offspring actually age twice as fast as human children. We’re fully grown by twenty-one or twenty-two. That’s when the aging process slows down dramatically.”
