"Wait - " he chimes through a peach slice in his mouth. " She's what?! I thought she was some really stubborn kid... "

Fifteen would make them more or less the same age! And he most certainly doesn't see himself as a kid. How'd she end up so tiny? It's not like they didn't have plenty of food in the village, it seems. Maybe she was born as a really tiny baby?

The question seems to trouble him as half a peach sits unsliced in his hand, swallowing the fruit with morbidly curious deliberation.