Vax realized as he set his fingers to slowly roll at her temples for a few moments what it was that nagged at him as familiar about Corbie. She was low-born, he thought, just from how informal and down-to-earth she was about things. But she'd been well-educated, formally trained, probably at a school fancier than what she'd come from. He knew what that was like.

"And that made you special, that you were able to tell them all that didn't like a young lady learning magic to go fuck themselves. But the women using magic here - I don't think most of them had to deal with that, or not in the same way."