"Could've been. I wasn't looking." As his innumerable private tutors could relate, he had not been much of a student. High school had been spent chasing down supervillains; he'd never had much time for trigonometry. Or geometry. Or geography. He'd made time for human anatomy, though. Or at least female anatomy. "At least one of the answers in this book must be seven. It's a big book."
Once Rose started scratching his ear, he leaned into her hand almost on reflex. Then he started purring. It was one of the stranger abilities he had a shapeshifter, since the only use for it was that people liked to hear it, but it worked for him.