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[This is written in intentionally disguised handwriting. In other words it's anonymous.]

I have a question regarding a personal matter and would ask for advice. If your [there are a bunch of scribbles here, obfuscating a word] teacher brings you to a place where there are women who are expected to behave in a certain way, is this normal?

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[the_effect_she_has]

Usually. Once you get past the age of eighteen, your only concern is starving to death.

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[Wait...] Your people remain children until they are eighteen?

[the_effect_she_has]

[She nods.] Before then, they're subject to the Games. You have to be an adult to be exempt.

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[.........]

That does not make sense. You are forced to play games until you reach an arbitrary age?

[the_effect_she_has]

You don't know what kind of Games these are.

[She's silent for a moment.]

Fierce battles to the death.

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Your world makes children do this?

[He tries not to be judgmental about others' cultures, but he can't even think of a reason why that would be a thing.]

[the_effect_she_has]

My world is somewhat monstrous, I know.

[Because she knows how horrible it is. She lived it.]

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Children have no place in war. I still do not understand why an arbitrary age makes a person a child or adult in your world.

[the_effect_she_has]

When you're eighteen, you don't participate in the Games. That makes you an adult.

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But why eighteen?

[the_effect_she_has]

I'm not sure, honestly. It was just the age the Capital picked. Maybe it's the age the world stopped looking at people as children.

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Where I am from, you are an adult once you have begun living as one.

[the_effect_she_has]

You mus be from the past.

[eaglet]

Perhaps. I may also be from a different world. Or perhaps the future.

[the_effect_she_has]

Well, you're not from my time, and apparently I'm from the future.

[eaglet]

Time does not end with any one person. I could be from your future. You do not know.

[the_effect_she_has]

...That is a very excellent point.

[eaglet]

This is why I am asking for opinions on this matter. It is not normal in my time and where I am from, but perhaps it is normal elsewhere. I do not wish to harshly judge my teacher if it is normal to him.