Ah. I'm afraid our school systems do not line up. I am just shy of fourteen and have taken a semester at Weston College, which handles young men up to age eighteen. Perhaps the discrepancy comes from where we hail from- I'm from England, myself. I understand our education system is different from most.

[It was a bit he was willing to let slip. He was an Earl, and only vaguely knew how to handle himself according to other European lands. It would get out that he was English one way or another.

Of course he couldn't exactly imagine that the true reason was beyond foreign school systems, and that a large part of it was that he was a veritable grandpa compared to most here.]