"I'm sorry... I don't think I quite heard that correctly,".
"Oh, cousin mine, don't you think it's a little too early in your life to be suffering from hearing loss?" Kaye teased, matching my slow pace.
"No, but seriously! What about the academy rules against allowing opposite genders as bunkmates?!"
"Oh, you young kids with your trivial worries. There was obviously no such rule back in our day. The academy just threw people wherever they fit." Kaye scoffed, waving her hand dismissively.
Another piece of historical lore completely unmentioned in the original novel, dropped on me just like that...
"But Sis Kaye," Nagi pressed, genuinely bewildered, "what about personal boundaries? Or, you know... actual privacy???"
"Oh, that part, huh... Well, it's not like I didn't worry about it at first," she mused, tapping her chin as we neared the courtyard.
