All blood children had turned twelve years old across the entire continent, and that meant that Arastia was hardly the only girl who had started menstruating. That year, a highly classified and confidential set of reports from across the entire continent made it clear that the girls had already entered puberty and were experiencing a menstrual cycle that was very different from anything that human civilization had ever seen before.
They all reported the same thing.
[Blood girls experience a spike in physical and mental abilities by an order of magnitude when undergoing menstruation.]
It was a shocking report that rocked the highest echelons of human civilization. Many leaders were truly bewildered that there could be such a radical departure in the female hormonal cycle compared to what human women go through on a regular basis.
