It wasn't the first time Javert had noticed the high proportion of children here, and he nodded briefly. At least Juri seemed to have a few classmates with her.

"Forgive me if I'm being too forward, mademoiselle, but where are you from? It's difficult to believe that ordinary students would be taken from their school like this."

It was another pattern - this one just as riddled with exceptions as the other, but one he was just as dead set on following. The children here were...different, as far as he could tell. More mature, certainly, and usually possessed of supernatural powers.