That muttered comment gets Clarisse to raise her eyebrows. It's questioning, but she doesn't ask out loud—not yet, anyway.

"That's what I'm learning."

Even saying that, for her, is huge.

"I feel a little like I wasn't..." She stops herself from saying taught; that's a step too far over the line. "Like I didn't know much, before I got here," is what she settles on.