Corbie's face fell a little as she considered that question. "I was learning how to build engines," she said "And maybe I'd've learned some healing, if I'd been in school long enough." That was considered a 'womanly' enough thing to do that the Institution didn't balk at girls learning healing magic, even if boys generally learned more and better.

She cast a glance at her containment circle and, with a scuff of her foot through one of the lines and a whispered word, she erased it back into the dirt.