[Sieglinde finds she has echoed the phrase without quite meaning to, following his gaze outwards after a brief study of his now unscarred face and the peculiar colored eyes. He speaks as if he has a great wealth of experience, with a gravitas she isn’t about to doubt- likely from a world more fantastical than her own, perhaps like those who traveled worlds even before Hathaway or ALASTAIR. Still.]
Genetics are useless without a proper upbringing, and abilities likewise without a proper teacher.
[But it hadn’t been proper at all... how she’d been deceived, how she’d been taught. She knew that. But it didn’t change that she had been, or that that woman had been her biological mother, or that she’d been born with exact intelligence required.]
... I should like to prescribe to such a philosophy for the future, at least, for my own heirs. ... it does not change one’s past, or one’s cultural practice up until a certain point, but.
[But she’s seen a lot of things in the past two years. Learned more than she ever could have in her own village, her own country, her own world.]
no subject
[Sieglinde finds she has echoed the phrase without quite meaning to, following his gaze outwards after a brief study of his now unscarred face and the peculiar colored eyes. He speaks as if he has a great wealth of experience, with a gravitas she isn’t about to doubt- likely from a world more fantastical than her own, perhaps like those who traveled worlds even before Hathaway or ALASTAIR. Still.]
Genetics are useless without a proper upbringing, and abilities likewise without a proper teacher.
[But it hadn’t been proper at all... how she’d been deceived, how she’d been taught. She knew that. But it didn’t change that she had been, or that that woman had been her biological mother, or that she’d been born with exact intelligence required.]
... I should like to prescribe to such a philosophy for the future, at least, for my own heirs. ... it does not change one’s past, or one’s cultural practice up until a certain point, but.
[But she’s seen a lot of things in the past two years. Learned more than she ever could have in her own village, her own country, her own world.]