"I don't know about that," Ella grinned in quiet amusement. "Unless you count being able to stitch tiny, neet little stitches in cloth and taking twenty minutes to write my name really really elegantly."

A pause. "That's a slight exaggeration, it's probably more like ten minutes, actually. Skills like that don't have much call in the world, unless it's to draw notice of a suitor, anyway. Actually, funny enough, I seem to have found myself working at the Uzushio Ryokan. Mostly as an attendant - but it's not what I would have seen myself as doing back home."