There is only one number in the nineties that is prime, so jack is correct.
It’s nature, like the weather in the extract, such as ‘bitterly hard weather’ and ‘the Earth was like iron’. Hope this helps!
Arrogant appears to have the closest connotative meaning.
Don’t click that it’s a s.cam
Hard to judge without the context of the other sentences of the story but if I had to guess, it sounds "inviting and familiar" to me.
