[He nods in understanding.] I guess it would be hard to believe.
I didn't have anyone telling me I had to. Anyway, my powers were already developing by then. Monsters would have been able to sniff me out. It's why we left [Escaped?] from the last school I was in. Turns out the vice-principal was a manticore. Going to a mortal school would have been dangerous. Plus ... I don't have any records. Or, if I do, they'd say I should be several decades older. And there's the wars, and everything else ... Even if I wanted to, it's too late now.