Why school, of all things? I found no pleasure in being herded in with every other person my own age to be taught by someone so far below my station.
⟪ No, best to denounce as much of the experience as possible. She would rather not be the only one to admit that life had been much, much simpler for Celeste, perhaps even in ways she found pleasurable. This is a weakness that can be shared, at best, but should not exist as a solitary confession. ⟫
All told, I could well use a return to a world in which I am not treated as half a child.
It has been a long time since I was able to just sit and learn things, I suppose. You might laugh at me for this, but I always rather enjoyed school - even if it can, quite often, be pitched rather lower than I'd care for.
And I died before I could finish my exams, besides. There was something rather reassuring, in this new version of things, in knowing that at least one version of myself didn't waste all his education by simply not finishing it.
<QueenRegnant>
⟪ No, best to denounce as much of the experience as possible. She would rather not be the only one to admit that life had been much, much simpler for Celeste, perhaps even in ways she found pleasurable. This is a weakness that can be shared, at best, but should not exist as a solitary confession. ⟫
All told, I could well use a return to a world in which I am not treated as half a child.
<TruthSeeker>
And I died before I could finish my exams, besides. There was something rather reassuring, in this new version of things, in knowing that at least one version of myself didn't waste all his education by simply not finishing it.