"It's an unusual thing to me, I'll admit, to think of books as something so easily come by," he said as they sat at a table, laying his bow on the ground by his chair. "I was lucky enough to be born in to a noble family, or I'd probably never have learned to read at all." His father had insisted on the finest tutor he could afford, when Robin was younger.
"Don't apologise. It's hardly your fault I have eight hundred years of catching up to do." That was a lot of old habits to let go of, and a lot to learn.