Cissie can't help a slightly visible reaction to Tony's story. Homeschooled and "dragged" to normal school at sixteen, in a way that merits a pause like that? She's not sure what to make of the similarities there.

"That's... okay, this is weird. I was homeschooled until I was fourteen, and the state kind of intervened and sent me off to boarding school. Which I guess could be called normal school, since it's the only one I've ever been to," she adds with a grin. Possibly being so blunt about the state of Pennsylvania's role in her enrollment in St. Elias is a little odd, but it's such common knowledge at home that it seems silly to keep it secret now.