Furrawn’s Reviews > A Sorceress Comes to Call > Status Update

“To anyone looking in, she appeared to be embroidering a shawl—or more accurately, to have nearly fallen asleep in the middle of doing so. One of the advantages of age was that you could think a great deal while simply sitting still, and no one would poke you and demand that you go and do something useful.”

She’s 51 not 100. Why does the book act as if she’s ancient?