"People already know that we need books, few prioritize it," he pointed out. "This will encourage that priority."

"I cannot compare the rate at which they age to that of aging on other worlds with a high enough degree of accuracy that I feel comfortable answering that directly. However they do all age more or less at a consistent rate with each other." And there were some few people he suspected would stay looking the age they chose out of sheer stubbornness, but then will power was a power, in Ceiphro.