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[argyle_princess]

Hannah has been out running, once all the way around the lake, rain or no rain.

Now she's settled into an armchair wringing water out of her hair, and thinking about getting coffee.

Bother at will.

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[argyle_princess]

"It's sorta vaguely not entirely unfamiliar maybe," she offers. "Kinda. But it could be that I heard someone here talking about it, too. So, like, what do you do there?"

[dear-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"I'm the schoolmistress for a school of boys, in Chipstede," she answers promptly with a small smile, "and I help my grandparents with housekeeping. What do you do in your...Neptune?" Cora pronounces the name carefully.

It's a question she's had to get used to, in Milliways. In Chipstede--and to a certain extent Beruna--everyone knows everyone's occupation.

[argyle_princess]

"I'm a student. High school, which is like for when you're fourteen to about eighteen. Before college. Right now I go to school on the other side of the country, but I'm kinda hoping that'll change."

"And I run."

[dear-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Cora nods as she listens to Hannah's explanation.

"Being away from home is...difficult. Is college the same thing as a university?"

If so, she's officially in love with Earth. Not only are there many colleges that you don't have to be rich to attend, but women go there.

Possibly she hasn't heard the cons (of Earth, not universities).

[argyle_princess]

There are cons of universities, too.

"Yeah. Colleges are, um, usually smaller than universities, I think, but you do the same thing there, basically, if you're a student. I don't know which one I'll go to, but I have a couple years to figure it out."

[dear-of-heart.livejournal.com]

True!

"I'd think either would be a fine thing, but very few people go to a university in my world, see, and...well, I'm a teacher, so."

She might be a bit biased?

[argyle_princess]

"So you approve of education? Did you go?"

[dear-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I very much approve of it," she says with an amused grin. "But I went to a school for young women, and most girls finished their education at sixteen."

Cora shrugs. "I was the senior math instructor's assistant there for a few years before I started teaching."

[argyle_princess]

"Really? I like math. It's either right or wrong. And science, especially chemisty, even if I do break an alarming number of beakers."

[dear-of-heart.livejournal.com]

[OOC: I detest LJ or hotmail or whichever is responsible for me not receiving the notification until now. *headdesks* Since this is oldlike, would fading be okay?]