From the Journal of Blayze EmberScales (Prologue)
The logic is that if they survived to old age, then they should pass on their tried-and-true methods and knowledge to future generations.
Easter Thieves: Stakeout
"he's getting soft in his old age," nadja agreed, "who would have known that he'd open up our whole evening!" nadja punctuated her words with a quick peck on jeff's cheek, setting the beige bunny to blush as her meaning hit home.
Gluttony
His eyes seemed alert, despite his old age and his hair stuck out in straight strands like he rubbed some kind of hair gel in it to keep it out.
TftTB: The Little Things
He would love to have a relationship with the jaguar, to sing and be sung to, to live with him into old age... the wolf shook his head. _what am i thinking? i'm already in a good relationship with someone i'm fully comfortable with.
Not Quite Home
There's no such thing as "old age" because everyone is on the menu. and i'm the king of the swingers, the "jungle vip", the top banana the-i think you get the point, let's move on.
Chapter 4: Getting the Band Back Together
"she's not handling old age nearly as well as i am. but, do me a favor and don't tell fox. i don't want him distracted with that until we're finished with andrew." "then why tell me?"
Eight Lives Too Many: Part One
If anything he laughed at the idea of actually dying from anything but old age. the sun was setting when he got out of his house and his fox neighbor called out to him.
Ander - Chapter 3, Subchapter 14
"i must be going soft in my old age," he said and gave ander a hard double clap on the back. "i don't know what will happen out there tonight, but i'll do the best i can. sarah may have been unconscious at the time, but i promised to look after you.
Desire and Elegance
But those invaders marry off at an old age, leaving life to be incomplete should they die young. in most tribes, anyone who failed to marry by that age had died of illness. of course, no one under fourteen was allowed to fight.
There is No Death Above
His body once wracked by old age was now at optimum health and probably even greater than what could be accomplished on earth.
Eric and Milo: Settling Things
Are you getting chicken in your old age?" eric, who was all of three years older than milo, glared at the smug teenager. "oh, now you're going _down_, little brother."
The Dark Cell: All I Hear Is Random Noise
He told me if i wasn't going to cooperate, then he was going to leave me in that cell, bound and gagged until i died of old age. as he carried me in his tight clasp, frustrated with me beyond all consolable reason.