"Oh." Ashleigh paused in eating to look at Higgs. She hadn't expected that. It had been a long (long) time since she'd considered her job something she would do forever. She scrunched her nose as she realised she couldn't even remember if she was due a promotion soon or not. Either way, she'd intended to leave someday for a long time. It was just that the timing was never right. There was always Asher, or Alicia, or their mother, or something. The last few times Ashleigh had finally been thinking of really making a start on exploring her options, something had come up to stop her. Right now, for example, she knew it would be madness to start her own business while she was taking care of Alicia. When she made the change, she would need to focus, properly. She would need to be selfish. She couldn't do that unless her siblings were in a good place.
She'd always thought people knew that was her ultimate goal. Aisling certainly did. Perhaps not her siblings, because the interest they took in her life was extremely limited, but Axel, and Higgs. Maybe, if Higgs didn't know, it wasn't so surprising that Axel hadn't either. "I'd like to," she said. "Not right now, obviously, but one day." She sipped her coffee, considering whether or not to tell Higgs why she'd asked. It did feel like he deserved to know. "Axel had a dream, and in it I'd quit to work in interior design. He described it as crazy." She frowned. "It doesn't sound crazy to me, but I'm biased. I suppose I expected him to just know that I don't want to work at the Ministry forever. That I'd like to do something I... like." She'd never communicated it in so many words, but nor had she made any secret of the fact that she found her current job almost unbearably boring. She shrugged. "It doesn't matter. I just wondered if it would have seemed crazy to you."