"I think you're one of the few lucky ones at least, being able to find something so similar to your prior positions. Not as much culture shock." On finding such a table, she sets her cup of cocoa down, carefully pulling the chair back for herself so it doesn't even so much as squeak, before sitting down.

"I'd be one of those people who comes from a different time and place - and it isn't so much the ideology as ... the everything, to me." She laughed. "But I'm adaptable."