"It is. Pietro says it's because we have such a powerful father but.... I think I would have rather been older." She raised a finger to her lips, indicating what she had just said was a secret, eyes darting back and forth once, to see who might have just over heard. Thankfully, it didn't appear to her that anyone outside the conversation seemed to care.

"I trained at home, up until a year ago, maybe. And then I trained at a boarding house. ... I-- mentioned I'm 'sheltered,' right?"