The fingers moving through her hair felt really nice and Corbie let out a little sigh through her nose. "Something like that. I mean, I didn't fit well all the time, but I didn't feel so... cast adrift?" She chewed her lip. "I was going to school. I was learning about my magic. I wanted to be..." she realized there was no real context for 'virtuer,' and she swallowed. So instead she said, "Women ain't encouraged to take studying magic seriously, where I'm from. I wanted to. I wanted to learn and advance as much as I could. And there's always some self-teaching involved, but now all I got's me, two books, and whatever Regina and me can get through what's basically a big translation problem."