It is, all things considered, a very nice drawing room. Portraits adorn the walls and the heavy drapes are open to let starlight from the moonless night through. There's a table far too small for the large room with a pot of tea, a set of tea cups and an arrangement of cookies and fruit. Two oaken doors are firmly closed to one side, and to the other a single door is slightly ajar, the sound of sobbing coming from past it. Every once in a while it's possible to hear a page being turned in the other room as well. The drawing room on its own is silent, save for the ticking of a grandfather clock and then, with no prelude, an exclamation.
"Too hard to keep appropriate clothing appropriately clean - I was allowed to hike around our gardens and some nearby places. But also the sky doesn't really change that much even if you hike a lot?"
"I'd think you'd get better views from some places than others? Depending on things like how many trees and buildings were in the way."
"My family's estate has a bell tower which has excellent views on all sides - I did quite a lot of my painting there."
"Yes, because it's unbecoming of a woman to fly up very high to see good weather all the time."
"Well, not actually, but if I complain a lot my mother gets annoyed and lectures me about how I have to be better if I want to find a permissive husband, so I have to keep them to myself."
"If flying isn't a drawback to the right husband, surely attention would be better spent on any other feature than 'not flying'."
"Oh, I won't be able to fly when I have a husband for a long while since I'll need to have children."
"I'm not sure - we're not supposed to run at all because babies are very delicate and empowered can run very fast. I think we're not supposed to run even at normal speed, but maybe that part of the rule is fake."
Haru would admittedly expect that an esper who could fly would want to avoid it while pregnant but that's because backlash is terrible for fetuses. "Are you supposed to avoid all your magic, or only the sorts that involve moving around a lot?"
"I don't think there's any custom of the kind observed in Narnia, though perhaps I wouldn't know."
"Not with anything like perfect regularity, but I don't think I've heard that the ones with active mothers do worse. The opposite if anything."
"...I should question a doctor about this. And possibly complain about how I have been lied to."
"The doctors may also have been lied to, I don't imagine they get a lot of people volunteering to fly a lot while pregnant if everyone believes it'll be harmful."