Most students enrolled in the academy at the age of sixteen, and by the time they reached their second year, almost all of them had turned seventeen, with some being a few months older and others already close to eighteen.
Being newly seventeen was common enough among first-years nearing the end of the school year, but rare among second-years.
For Selena, however, that was the case not because she had skipped a year, but because of the incident a year ago.
She was the same age she had been a year ago, and that was because the time she had spent inside that dimension had barely affected her age.
The public had never been given the full picture of what happened to her and the others who vanished alongside her, but a few details had leaked out. Among them, the strange discrepancy in time.
Everyone knew that, for her, barely more than two weeks had passed.
