Another shrug. She wasn't saying there weren't any, necessarily. Just that she hadn't seen any for a while.

(Plus, ages were often difficult to discern. Even she, at fifteen, was still small enough to pass for younger.)

"No, I don't think so. It was a gift. A friend who was here for a short time and left. There was a note he must have written before, and it said he wanted me to have it if he ever disappeared."