"I loved them," Liliana said with a kind of aching sincerity that no other topic could possibly lay claim to. "Invigorating. I nearly stayed after I graduated, in fact."

The happiest times in her life revolved around a school. Time to not examine that.

"I was a Dreadbones and Pestcatcher - not what it sounds like - double major, and very nearly picked up a third major in the College of Silverquill."