Re: The Schoolboy/The Witch
"Mmm," she hummed as if he'd spoken to her of his deepest secrets and she was locking them away in the vault of her mind. "A resiliency to corruption makes for a better lawmen, I think. And then you have the laws of the universe. That what must be planted needs to be tended to, so it grows strong and healthy. That things launched into the air must return to the ground." That things beyond rational thought could still behave by its own set of laws and order. "I don't think lawmen concern themselves with those things. They worry about following the laws set down in that area, so our society functions. Their inability to be corrupted should be the very first trait to be looked for."
She eyed him closely for a moment. "Are you steadfast, Oliver?" It wasn't his obedience to authority she wanted to know about. Obedience was one of those things that people (society) believed she should have, but that she lacked completely. The rest of the women in her family were the same way and she could only imagine authority to be like tepid salt water -- disgusting, even when it was needed.
Almost a little like schooling, but she enjoyed her courses, even if they weren't law and Latin and how to be a gentleman like they taught him at his school. "Home-schooled," she reiterated with a nod, her shoulders going back as she beamed, proudly. There was no governess, only her mother and the aunties to teach her and her siblings all they needed about a world that disavowed them.
The twinkle in his eyes sent her mouth to curving upward. "It doesn't mean I never leave home. There are our neighbors, and my cousins. I have two older sisters and a younger brother who never shuts up--" it ran in the family. "And then there are the shop keeps and the blacksmith's son that tries to kiss every girl in town." Her face twisted at that and she shook her head like she was trying to shake a particularly nasty thought out.
It was easier to saddle onto his question. "I do." And then with a knowing smirk, she added, "There's plenty of time for socializing. And I've never had to read a horrible, dusty book on law."