"Well, maybe I'm not an expert after all," Lucy says, shrugging her shoulders, "but it's what I think. If you're gonna stand on your own two feet and get through life, you're adult enough for me."

Not that she was the be all end all of the subject but she'd seen enough people struggle and fall down and get back up that she counts that as an accomplishment. Anything after that, in her opinion, is just a victory. Getting a job, getting married, whatever, anything extra is just incentive for the person.

"Besides, you're not in your previous small town." Lucy points out. "You're in some mid sized city that no one can get into and no one knows the true location of. Things are different here and unless someone's told you otherwise, you're an adult. I say so."