It honestly didn't take long before reality finally hit me.
We were already in our fourth year.
Even now, thinking about it still felt weird somehow. It was the kind of thing you understood logically, but emotionally your brain still hadn't fully caught up yet. One day you were just another new cadet trying to survive academy life, and then suddenly you looked around and realized you were one of the oldest students left here.
Time really moved in a scary way when you weren't paying attention.
And on top of that, I was already twenty-one years old now too. Technically speaking, it had already been twenty-one years since I first arrived in this world.
Honestly, that part still messed with me sometimes.
