And is that a scientific word?

[ he's so strangely polite to her. it's... different. nostalgic. she watches his scrunch his face up in thought and thinks he's quite innocent; her words are still barbed. ]

I've never read texts dealing with... outer space or anything of the sort. Books were a luxury, a precious tome to be regarding with respect for the person who put all their hard work into it. [ not much reading gets done by peasants. ]