“Right. Well, now that we’ve established that,” she said, grinning. “Let me start out by asking you how old you think I am?” “If you were a human, I’d say you were a little older than me. Twenty-seven? Twenty-eight, perhaps?” “Gods.” Her eyes went wide. “This will come as a bit of a shock, then.” She took a deep breath. “I was born at the very beginning of the tenth age. I’ve been alive for one thousand four hundred and eighty-six years.”
