[it really is. and Tinya can't help but worry how Jo will take her death, having so many powers but still being unable to save the girl he loves. and how her mother will take it. she's already deeply opposed to the Legion's existence, Tinya worries that she'll take her daughter's death as a reason to shut the Legion down.

she thinks for a moment] I guess it is a little weird. The age of majority was dropped to fourteen on Braal and Titan first. They'd been at war with each other for years. They needed more soldiers and more workers and didn't have enough, so they lowered the age it took to serve. After it worked there, a lot of other planets followed their example, including Earth.