Live Long and Prosper.
Written in class again. Stupid hyphenated words. OO's word count does it the way I'd do it if I was doing it manually, anyway.
Nobody really knew what sort of lifespan an Elf-Human hybrid would have. Despite her Elfin-length gestation, all Flora's other milestones, from first steps, to adult teeth, to menarche were normal enough by the standards of first-world humans.
It was almost heart-breaking for Holly, suggesting as it did that Flora was aging at a practically human rate. She had always half-hoped Flora would age at an Elfin rate, though she understood Flora was too big to live in Haven. Eventually, she lived a very long time for a human, but it would have been a tragically short life for an Elf