[Yes but Erik didn't have the stress factor of four kids and twelve grandkids, that adds like, at least two decades onto him.]

It did, and that is something that I find a bit worrying. The proverb 'do not hand a child a sword' seems to apply here; I have no experience with such things. How will I learn to use powers that did not exist in my world? I have no frame of reference for these things.

[Anatoly pauses, mulling it over, and nods.] I'll try. Likely that will take several drafts to get everything important down. I have never been any good with writing letters. My wife was always the better one at that.