Mike glances at Anna, then back at his daughter.
"How old did you expect us to be?."
Leah even stops eating. She is so surprised. "Both of you don't look a day over thirty! Are you telling me a fairy tale? People only live for seventy to eighty years old and die, there's nothing like that!."
Her father shakes his head.
"But we have lived a good many years over eighty, and it is very possible that you, too, will live as long as we will. We are not ordinary humans, remember?."
Leah also shakes her head, looking at her parents with pity in her eyes.
" Ancestors. " She says as she stands up from her chair. She leaves Anna and Mike in laughter.
Leah doesn't feel like exploring the castle anymore. She decides to go to bed early. She and Dixon are going to Central in the morning and she ca
