Age Differences In The Liveship Traders [LST Spoilers Alert]

[londonlassie]

She traveled a lot with her father, so she might not have seen much at all of winthrow before he was sent to the monastery.

Also a good point, especially since she doesn't even seem to recognise him or be happy that he is home when she arrives back in Bingtown, before she hears her father is dying. If they'd seen a lot of each other as children, she would have recognised Wintrow.

I still can't imagine the girls being "so close" (as Keffria said they had once been when Althea yelled at her over "stealing" Vivacia), with a fifteen-year age gap, though. My cousin and her little brother have a thirteen-year gap between them, and they're not close at all, just because the older child has no interest in the toddler. They don't even argue, because the older child doesn't want to spend enough time with the toddler for them to argue.

Now my cousin would probably shout at or be horrible to her little brother because these days, fifteen is still a child and she's expected to behave like a child, so it would be excusable. But in Bingtown, a married woman, as Keffria would have been, behaving like a child would probably be frowned upon.