[HMPH that's right and for that he gets a pleased, haughty smile from Rachel. Maybe one day she won't be such a bitch, one day...]

Different times? I suppose it comes as no surprise that people can be picked from different points in time seeing as how they can already take others from completely different worlds. [And possibly timelines too if her suspicions regarding the people from her own world were correct.] I suppose this fits a certain saying though, amusingly enough; something about where it's as if one looks away for a second and before they knew it, a child is all grown up.