No sooner has Rozemyne’s fourth year at the Royal Academy begun than she ends up somewhere unexpected. How will the saint respond when an incident in Ahrensbach leaves everyone else feeling defeated?
That’s what they assumed, when Dirk was handed to them, but that doesn’t mean it is so. Babies do not all come out of the womb at a single standardized size. He could have even been a preterm birth. Not very likely, considering they already have high infant mortality, even with regular pregnancies, but we can’t rule it out entirely.
On top of that, the people who received him in the temple made this assumption based on how normal babies grow, BEFORE they knew he was a devouring child. A body filled with mana grows slower, so that throws estimations off even more, especially since there too, there is no set rate, but it depends on how much mana the child has, how well it can compress the mana instinctively, whether it can get help to drain mana and if so, when and how often.
Put it all together and them being off by three or four month in their estimate, seems quite plausible.
Dirk was born end of winter or beginning of spring. He’s slightly older than Kamil, who was born just after spring prayer.
That’s what they assumed, when Dirk was handed to them, but that doesn’t mean it is so. Babies do not all come out of the womb at a single standardized size. He could have even been a preterm birth. Not very likely, considering they already have high infant mortality, even with regular pregnancies, but we can’t rule it out entirely.
On top of that, the people who received him in the temple made this assumption based on how normal babies grow, BEFORE they knew he was a devouring child. A body filled with mana grows slower, so that throws estimations off even more, especially since there too, there is no set rate, but it depends on how much mana the child has, how well it can compress the mana instinctively, whether it can get help to drain mana and if so, when and how often.
Put it all together and them being off by three or four month in their estimate, seems quite plausible.