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Dialoge snips ...

Ariel, are you sure your brother is really that old?

Yep.

But his face is so smooth.

Remember what I told you about shaving, people really do it.

Are you sure?

Look we take today's year, subtract the year he was born and we get ...

That's silly.  You don't count the first year, because babies die so often.  Then, you don't count every seventh year, they are jubilees.  You've got his age all messed up.

Thalia, you've got your age messed up -- its my city.  He is twenty-one, but you aren't almost fifteen.  You are really almost eighteen. That explains a lot ...

Pardon?

Never mind, I've wondered about how, er, developed, you seemed, for so young and so short.  Anyway, someone ought to tell him you are really older than he thought.