Mycroft nods. It's easy for him to picture Ilde as a young student attending the renowned performing arts school, breezing through classes on account of her exceptional talent.
He realizes this is a largely uninformed vision; there's no way for him to know what Ilde's relationship with the educational system was like when she was at home. The fact that she acts as a teacher in Baedal suggests that she feels a certain degree of comfort with the subject of education, but there's no way to know for sure. Mycroft knows that most people assume he'd had an easy time of it as well, and they couldn't be farther from the truth.
“I'm afraid I took the predictable route and went to Oxford,” he says, more sure than not that Ilde will have already guessed that or Cambridge. He thinks of a few things he could say to her about Oxford, about uni in general, but in the end, he leaves it at that.
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He realizes this is a largely uninformed vision; there's no way for him to know what Ilde's relationship with the educational system was like when she was at home. The fact that she acts as a teacher in Baedal suggests that she feels a certain degree of comfort with the subject of education, but there's no way to know for sure. Mycroft knows that most people assume he'd had an easy time of it as well, and they couldn't be farther from the truth.
“I'm afraid I took the predictable route and went to Oxford,” he says, more sure than not that Ilde will have already guessed that or Cambridge. He thinks of a few things he could say to her about Oxford, about uni in general, but in the end, he leaves it at that.