Wow...

[Not exactly college, but still awesome. If only he got to learn Fighting Arts, Charter magic and Aviation as a kid, oh my god.]

You girls sure get to learn all the fun stuff. [He gives a brief grin; he knows, it's probably just something from her world.

And then it fades again, as he gets back to the original topic.]

My mom...

[And there's a pause. Should he really say it? "My mom isn't really my real mom - my real mom is the empress of an alien race and I was probably sentenced to death right when I was born and she charged her nanny to take care of me and sent me to Earth to protect me, so nanny-mom didn't really know anything about Earth"?

He isn't really sure how that would go, so he tries something else.]

My mom wasn't really... native. So she didn't know much about what the cultures of our country did, but she still did the best she could for me. You don't really think about that kind of thing, you know? She's just "mom", no matter how much she might not know.

[He lowers his head, gaze focused on the edge of the table closest to him.]

She died not long before I got here. She was killed.