Tamani was suddenly struck by just how young David looked. He forgot, sometimes, that David, Laurel, and their friends were younger, in some ways much younger, than Tamani. He was posing as a school-age human, but in truth he was an officer in the Guard. He knew his place, he knew his role, with a certainty some humans never achieved. The amount of freedom human children had must be paralyzing. No wonder they took so long to become adults. Aprilynne Pike
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When Tamani was thinking of David he was also realizing how he had grown up. He was older than him. He was a big boy. Then David and his friends were younger than him.

When Tamani was thinking about David and the fact that he is the same age as them, he realized that he is not that much older than them. He feels like they are no different from him.

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