[He should be used to this, and he almost dismisses it but figures it'll just get confusing later if he leaves it alone. He doesn't know how old she is and some people just use kid pretty casually, but-]
Legal adult's little more complicated than that where I come from.
[but whatever, they've established she's going to view him as a kid either way and he's gotten pretty used to that here so he's not going to argue the point further.]
When you factor in the age of "legal adult" is different on every world I've been on including this one, the fact that I went from being maybe 17 for four years without aging and the fact that I enlisted in the military at 12 it's all pretty complicated.
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I'm nearly 22, you know.
but sure, any time.
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[but whatever, they've established she's going to view him as a kid either way and he's gotten pretty used to that here so he's not going to argue the point further.]
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[Regardless, he'll still be a kid, but she's curious]
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Still. You'll be 'kid'. Younger than me, you're 'kid'.
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As long as we're on the same page.