( the convenient part of living through multiple centuries is that she has experience with most fashion trends, however frustrating they happened to be at the time. so the modest skirt, tightly laced shoes, overly constricted undergarments and the high collar are all familiar, if mutedly aggravating.
the setting is not so strange, either; Diana has walked a campus or twenty in her lifetime. learning filled the years, softened the emptiness of being the only one of her kind in a world that did not know her and would not be kind if it did. she feels both at home and foreign in this moment that is not her own, as a woman in a place that she might not be particularly welcome yet not letting that bother her horribly much all the same.
Diana's attention is far from the giggles. she glances over the splay of notes and scientific tools. ) What are you working on? ( she wonders, setting her chin in her hand as she leans over the table to get a better look. )
Girton.
the setting is not so strange, either; Diana has walked a campus or twenty in her lifetime. learning filled the years, softened the emptiness of being the only one of her kind in a world that did not know her and would not be kind if it did. she feels both at home and foreign in this moment that is not her own, as a woman in a place that she might not be particularly welcome yet not letting that bother her horribly much all the same.
Diana's attention is far from the giggles. she glances over the splay of notes and scientific tools. ) What are you working on? ( she wonders, setting her chin in her hand as she leans over the table to get a better look. )