So deserts don’t have to be completely without water for the rest of it to be still a desert. And then you could irrigate crops as a food source while still being close enough to the desert to learn how to move safely in the desert. Did you cultivate the...date trees, or did they grow there on their own?

[...Wait a second. Children older than her? So he meant she was still a child with some time left to go. Had he mistaken her for much younger than she is, like when Sir Bethrion met her?]

But I’m already twelve. I’m not a child.