"Someone like you," he repeats, the frown deepening as Sal tells him the reasons. "Is the issue that you're younger or just young?" True he had to admit that the age difference was... large and he wasn't sure if he himself would be comfortable with it, but the fact that the two of them had become involved despite that?

"So what? You're just not being judged for being a mage but for your age and your status?"