Eddis, Attolia, Sounis

The books say that Gen's grandfather, the other Thief, took an interest in him after Gen's mother died. She died when he was ten, so I can't imagine Gen being younger than ten when he saw Irene in the garden at the Attolian Palace and he became enchanted with her. When he tells her he saw her there in QofA, she was guessing him to be age six, but I think she was mockingly exaggerating his youth, which she did constantly at the end of QofA.
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