[The sigh he gives is a bit exhaustive.] In your world, yes. I think it's fair to say they are not all the same.
[Even from the small interactions he's had with the other guests -- even with the prisoners, as short as it's been -- it is very clear that is the truth. No further theories in other spheres need be explored.
Well. Not that he wouldn't love to learn more.] Like I said, a very lucky place. I'm not exactly a monarch myself so I merely have ideas, but it'd take more than a bit of encouragement to have literacy spread when most of the population is attempting merely to survive.
[He wouldn't have taken her for such a resounding optimist, but he assumes that a comfortable life can so easily make that happen. She must be a noble where she comes from, librarian or not.]
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[Even from the small interactions he's had with the other guests -- even with the prisoners, as short as it's been -- it is very clear that is the truth. No further theories in other spheres need be explored.
Well. Not that he wouldn't love to learn more.] Like I said, a very lucky place. I'm not exactly a monarch myself so I merely have ideas, but it'd take more than a bit of encouragement to have literacy spread when most of the population is attempting merely to survive.
[He wouldn't have taken her for such a resounding optimist, but he assumes that a comfortable life can so easily make that happen. She must be a noble where she comes from, librarian or not.]