niteo_nix | 021 ☯ Alma [VIDEO]

[She doesn't know very much about how education works here.]

... I cannot tell you what it is in this place... I had tutors, privately. Princesses, of sorts, don't get to play with other children very much but...

I've very fond memories of it. It's a lovely thing to be able to learn, in whatever capacity you wish to. I'd start sometime after dawn, we'd have history, then languages for a few hours... then some on philosophy as well. All the way till dinner. Then I'd have other things that were consider necessary. Singing, dancing, sewing... but I do not think you'd be very interested in those.

[ponders a little further] Is there... any chance you could join one of the schools across the river?

[Alma listens attentively. Maybe Elizabeth's experiences were different from his desired "normal", but it was more schooling than he's ever had.]

Did you have art?

[He frowns a bit at her question.] I don't think so.

[He probably could, honestly, but it would only be a matter of time before he slipped up. Before he somehow hurt himself and his accelerated healing kicked in, raising suspicions and accusations. It was a big risk.]

Yes, that too. It's common for ladies to draw, at least those that can afford it. Painting however is for those of that trade. I had to sketch out designs that I'd like to sew sometimes.

[She smiled at him, she felt bad about this for some reason. He seemed so interested, as she had been in learning.]

You could... draw with me, if you liked. I don't mind.

I'd like that. [He grins, obviously in his element.] I love drawing. I like trying to sculpt too, but that gets kinda messy. [Probably because he uses mud and rocks. >>;]

How come not everybody could draw? All you need is paper and a pencil-...

[He trails off suddenly. Hold on a second...]

... Did you say "princess"?

Then you're more then welcome to. And they don't because paper and ink is not common, charcoal is though, I suppose. But it gets expensive, and only the nobility and merchants can really afford it.

[Oops, she really needed to stop springing that on people. This wasn't England, people didn't just know her.] And... yes. Princess. Though I wasn't really. But I was still a King's daughter, but when he had my mother, his wife, executed, I was stripped of my title.

But I'm the Queen of England, Ireland and... debatably France.

[He's listening to what she's saying. Really, he is, but... queens and princesses are things he's only ever read about in story books. He vaguely remembers mentions of some sort of queen back home, but his status as a Second and fifth lab's China location made such information pretty irrelevant.]

You're really a queen? That's amazing!