Time waits for no one, not when tragedies occur or when one eagerly waits reunion with allies they've said their goodbyes to.
Many things can happen in a short time and an infinite number of things can occur with an even longer wait.
Children become adults, naivety quickly replaced by a more realistic world view and those who believe they weren't good enough now believe that they are more than capable of tackling the world.
Worry is forced to become faith in friends and inevitably the need to focus on one's own growth triumphs over all else.
Ten drops in the river of time, ten years of inactivity by the nations as a whole as they focused on themselves whether for better or for worse.
A certain young prince had spent those years learning various lessons and absorbing as much as he could about history, not that ten years was enough to grasp all the knowledge he could possibly need.
