It inspires an answering smile from Devero. "It's not flattery if I mean it," he insists. "--Besides, you're hardly an old man." ...Pause. For all Devero knows, he could be 1500 years old, kept perpetually young by the magic of the sutra. That kind of stuff happened in the fantasy streams, didn't it?
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He squints at Koumyou suspiciously. "Right?"