@568cb1e6 @5a43dd67 I agree. In the instance you shared, I'd have done the exact same thing. In all the books I've written, there are actually few, if any, instances where I use numbers. Characters, mostly, don't think in precise terms. Something is old or its hundreds of years old, or it's seven-hundred-years-old. Too, as you say, that has a poetic feel that numbers cannot capture.