"Tulori studied at the academy in Keating," Jocelynn explained. The words sounded feeble and trivial on her lips even as she spoke them, but she kept going in the hopes that, if she got enough of the words out, her sister would understand.
"He made sure I knew that he had," Jocelynn said, unable to keep a trace of bitterness from creeping into her voice even now. "And that his sister had gone across the sea, to study at one of the academies in the Iron Kingdom. He made it sound so grand, and then he talked about our cousins, Micheline and Inry, and how he heard they'd gone to the royal academy in the capital… And he, he asked me how I liked the Royal Academy because he thought I must have gone there too," she said in a very small voice.
