Kit nodded. "Yeah," she said. "I saw a girl at the shrine who looked about 12 or 13, but she's the youngest-looking person I've seen here, besides us. No little kids."

Kit nodded at Diarmuid's theory. "That's what I thought too," she said. "Maybe not the same way as it is here in the city, but... it probably is."

"Yeah," Kit agreed. "We need to come up with a better idea. But that's hard when we don't know much about her. Like what She likes or wants. Other than keeping secrets from people, that is."

They were coming up on the lake, so Kit reined Salali in a little, gradually slowing them to a walk as they approached the shore.