| Sheena was the only summoner in the village (and it's Mizuho, not Myorzo), so I assume that as soon as she had mastered the art of summoning they decided to go ahead and let her try.
I assume that they would have let a nine-year-old do it if she had mastered the art and if nobody knew that volt is a jerk.
And it makes sense that they'd bring the whole village. Nobody had seen a summoning in years, why not take the whole village along to see? Besides a lot of the villagers were used to disarm the traps in the temple, they explained that already.
And there was no flashback to Sheena as a nine-year-old. They just explain it.
And about the Alicia/Regal thing:
I'm assuming that happened a long ish time ago, because in the flashback Regal looks younger. The age difference is still pretty extreme, though.
I do think it had to do with the caste system, though. Tethe'alla's pretty hard set on that. |