Of course. Ask an obvious question, get an obvious answer. Not like they really know the first thing about what puberty would even feel like, but it's not as though a single year could make that much difference, right?

"If you want to look older, you could try makeup, maybe." They suggest offhandedly, put their smile on, lean back against the cold rock and stare at a bunch of dark nothing-at-all. "It doesn't have to be a girl thing," they add, because he was pretty new to the idea of referring to people as anything other than he/she when they first met, after all. "Like a stage actor. Put shadows in the right places, and people will buy you're old enough to be out on your own. Especially if they don't look too closely."