"Do you wanna open a little music school?"

"I dunno! It'd be - pretty good, though, if I can figure out some tricks, make sure others know them? Though that sounds like the type of thing someone with her life together does."

"Do you not?"

"Man, I dunno. I feel like I don't?" Shrug. "I know what I'm doing with my life and I'm pretty good at it, but I'm still failing at, like, basic keeping a house clean."

"Eh, people don't all care the same amount about keeping a house clean, I don't think that's a big deal."

"My hope's just been getting wealthy enough I can hire people to do - all that 'functioning like a typical adult' stuff, really, and just do what I'm good at."

"I like having robots do things! Though this'll work less well when I can't set them up as agents of a central intelligence."

"Maybe you can replace that with a couple good knacks."

"Maybe? The worry about anything too smart becoming a person might stand."

"Yeah. Dunno a clever trick for avoiding that..."

"If it's never happened it might just not be a thing but my stuff gets close on its own, so."

"Haven't ever heard of it happening, at least, pretty sure not even in myths, and those attribute some pretty ridiculous stuff to crafting."

"Wow, really? You don't even have knack flavored Pygmalion and Galatea? ...What counts as ridiculous?"

Head scratch. "Not familiar with Pygmalion and Galatea. Gods get to make people, but, like, they're gods. But that might be more that the Church is really insistent only God makes life, which probably impacts what I've heard... Most of the mythology stuff I know is, like, Orpheus, who played his love back to life. Or tried, but because he played with his eyes open when he'd been told to keep his eyes shut by some god, he saw her reanimating and got freaked out."

"Huh, we have the Orpheus myth but it's different, he goes to the underworld and sings the god of the dead into freeing her and is challenged not to look behind him as he leads her out but he fails so she stays dead."

"I think he had to go to the Underworld to learn what to do, but he was told to sing over her grave, in the version I heard."

"What sort of church locally prevails?"

"Uh, lots of Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, at least some Pentecostals, I think there's a Lutheran church nearby... Catholics, too, there's a monastery near-ish. Lots of interdenominational or nondenominational churches."

"Okay, recognizable grab bag of Christianity."

"Yeah. There's probably some really weird sects floating around somewhere, but they aren't putting up big signs."

"Are most people religious?"

"Think so? Haven't seen, like, demographic stuff, and the people I hang out with don't talk about that much."

"Legit."

"I think we might actually have more pagans than atheists, at least that're open about it and getting together on weekends..."

"The environment seems conducive to, like, animism."