"I expect most people of your acquaintance don't look you in the eye," Abigail says, brightly.
It isn't how things are on the Fifth, but she knows enough of the other Houses – and beyond – to guess that, for this reserved young man, things might be different. "But I always have been a busybody. And we're peers, of a sort – although you have some advantage, still being alive."
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Date: 2022-09-15 12:06 am (UTC)It isn't how things are on the Fifth, but she knows enough of the other Houses – and beyond – to guess that, for this reserved young man, things might be different. "But I always have been a busybody. And we're peers, of a sort – although you have some advantage, still being alive."