Bruno sat in his office the day after the old flags of Portugal flew over Lisbon once more. A newspaper rested in his hands, and his eldest daughter sat across from him. She was practically an adult at this point.
Though how you defined such a thing was complicated.
Physically, she was fully grown. Mentally? Her brain had more or less completed its development — save perhaps the prefrontal cortex. Or maybe it had. There was no way to know for sure without a scan of the area, and that technology didn't exist yet.
It was commonly misquoted that the prefrontal cortex didn't fully develop until the age of twenty-five — but that was an average. In many cases, things like drug or alcohol abuse could delay its maturation. And in the case of the hyper-gifted? It could develop far earlier.
