Old enough to not need his dad.

[she teases, but fully sympathizes. she doesn't know what it's like to be twenty with living parents, and how she would have reacted in her own life at that age under those circumstances. and her boys? well.]

My boys were ten when I saw them last. [said with a bit of a sigh, a shake of her head.] I think parents will always worry regardless of the age, right?

[wanda pulls her shawl closer, the path they take diverging away from the main area of the settlement.]

I can't imagine them being twenty and me allowing them entirely free reins.