Okay, someone help me out here cos it's really starting to bug me: I'm reading the first part of Smoke & Lightning, and I just can't for the life of me figure out why Jensen is 19. He's in secondary school, right -- with the unifom-wearing, and the P.E. class? So why is he 19, and not, say, 17? It's repeated several times, so I don't believe it's a mistake. I just. . . don't get it, and at this point it's ruining the story for me.
Anyone? Did I miss something here?