If he couldn't have been more than ten, chances were he had been somewhere between 6 and 8. Andarions were a lot bigger than their human counterparts of the same age. Six to eight generally hadn't been bad years in his life unless Tachibana had run into him shortly after he'd been forced to make his first kill. Given he was talking about little Jules trying to piss him off, chances were pretty good that wasn't the case.

"Yeah, sounds about right. I was a contentious bastard from a pretty early age."