I wasn't yet fourteen when I first arrived, and at that time I had numerous friends from my...source. [ it's awkward to put it that way, but she can't say world when the world is destroyed, or universe when there was more than one involved (all of which were also destroyed). and this is hardly the time to get into her theories of multiversal division, no one has time for that shit. so she just has to run with the simplest word and hope it doesn't lead to too many questions. ] Most of us were satisfied to take care of ourselves, or each other, but I know others have certainly been less independent. I suppose the way humans are socialized would create a greater difficulty for many of them.

Still, I couldn't exactly speak to the why, but I'm also skeptical that the ratio necessarily skews so young on average. There have been periods with very few imPort minors, and those of us who have been around for a long time are starting to grow out of the category. But the human impulse to see young as weaker and in need of greater protection may be what causes that population to stand out, for you.