Great chapter, loved hearing more about the characters. Only note is that the word forseen is used quite a bit. Maybe use another synonym like "envisage" or "ideate"
I'm playing with this idea of a human race with an extended life span, living till they are close to 400-500 years old. I have to find a way to say this without it sounding like an info dump though. Thistle is special anyway since her grandmother is a goddess so she is one hundred years old physically but she is around twenty two or twenty three years old in our world. Varin is around 115-120 years old so still on the young side. In our world he would be in his mid -late thirties.
@Frances, Ah, okay! I got a little confused about their ages, but thank you for clearing that up. I'm not really sure how you'd casually introduce them, either. Perhaps in conversation? For Thistle, at least, I can imagine people discussing her age as if she's too young to have proper experience to rule.