He couldn't help but laugh. "Yeah, but I don't know how astute a student I was." Xander tried. He'd try now, too. Her threshold for embarrassment was probably a lot lower than his, as these things went.
...really, daydreaming about other things was probably a lot more fun than listening to parents drone on about Adult Things, in the long run. If Xander had stopped to think about it, he'd realize that. Especially since everyone at the Artificers' conclave was an adult, and that place was stuffy and boring as hell, whether you were an experiment or not.
"I don't know how much refinement you can expect from me, either. So we're even. I don't think I'll lift my pinky whilst drinking from a teacup, so I'm probably some sort of heathen, once we get right down to it," Xander said. "We'll just have to skip the tea and get it in the kitchen later, maybe. Where no one needs to be embarrassed!"
There. He's got it handled. Or, at least, he thinks so.
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...really, daydreaming about other things was probably a lot more fun than listening to parents drone on about Adult Things, in the long run. If Xander had stopped to think about it, he'd realize that. Especially since everyone at the Artificers' conclave was an adult, and that place was stuffy and boring as hell, whether you were an experiment or not.
"I don't know how much refinement you can expect from me, either. So we're even. I don't think I'll lift my pinky whilst drinking from a teacup, so I'm probably some sort of heathen, once we get right down to it," Xander said. "We'll just have to skip the tea and get it in the kitchen later, maybe. Where no one needs to be embarrassed!"
There. He's got it handled. Or, at least, he thinks so.