Wind by Naomi kritzer(22)

“Zimaya, I am fifty years old.”
“Exactly. That’s why you need to come with me; I don’t know where else will take a fifty-year-old woman, but this program also trains dragons, so they don’t have an age limit. A fifty-year-old dragon is barely old enough to leave home.”
“I can’t imagine doing this.”
“Can you imagine saying yes to the possibility of doing it?” Zimaya pleaded. She took Dagmar’s hand. “You healed my leg, Dagmar, and I have no money for payment. Let me pay you, instead, by healing you in return.”