"Unlike many of the honored guests and my older brothers and sisters who have spoken wonderful words about our father…" she began with a thoughtful tone. "I only knew my father at the dusk of his life, when he was perhaps not as energetic, youthful, and in his element as he was in earlier decades and eras. I was born at the inception of the Era of Darkness. The Beast Incursion has been the only reality I've known for most of my life, save for the past two years of the Age of Unfolding."
Those words made several people in the audience do a double-take despite all of their perfect control over their body language. Rui couldn't blame them. Her words made him feel old as well. And he was really old, of course, but his youthful body sometimes made him forget the full implications of his age.
