Shrug. "Feels obvious to me. Acting in a play doesn't count either, for about the same reason."

"Do people in Osirion mostly not act? It seems like they would act a lot."

"Oh, they do."

"I suppose you don't like Sothis anyway."

Snort. "Yeah."

"Your question."

"If you were an adventurer what would you specialize in?"

She lets out a breath that is almost a laugh. "I don't even know what all the kinds are."

"No one knows what all the kinds are, you always meet somebody who's like 'I have a fancy specialization from a monastery on a mountain you've never heard of...'"

"Pff. Magic would be cool, if I had the head for it, I guess."

"Cheliax has school for women, right?"

"Yeah, of course. I just wasn't that good at it. The kids both were. Top marks in almost everything."

"Wasn't any good at school either."

"I guess archery isn't one of the core subjects."

"Reading and writing and math and theology and history and economics and political geography and philosophy and military strategy and - nothing I use. Guess I use the languages."

"Wow, military strategy for everybody. I'm pretty sure you have to test into that in Cheliax."

"Probably if you're also educating all your women you cut down on some things."

"Hey, plenty of female hell knights. It's just not assigned in elementary education, is all. Literacy and composition and arithmetic and history and theology and civics and physical education."

"Sounds reasonable."

"Wouldn't want to push more than that on everyone, I don't think. Most tradespeople have better things to focus on."

"Yeah."

" - oh, it's me. Uh. What was your worst subject in school."

"Reading."

"Huh."

"I'm just not any good at it. I'm also not good at listening to lectures but you can get around that by, like, taking me out flying and giving the lectures that way, or being interesting, or whatever, no way around the reading thing."