"Pleased to meet you. You may call me Mr. Ambrose," the dog said. "it's been nice to see there are so many polite students."

"Ah, thank you, sir," said Kinexa.  "I'm still adjusting to all of this."

The doge nodded.

"Certainly, take your time. I'm sure you'll get your feet under you soon enough."

"Thank you," Kinexa said.  "I'll try.  I'm still adjusting to some new concepts, but I'll figure them out, I hope."

"If you need more help, the door to my office is always open," Mr. Ambrose said.

"Thank you," said Kinexa.  "I appreciate that.  Do you have any advice for me, as a new student?"

"I see that you've already befriended your roommates and are exploring the campus. I'd say stay the course as you're doing well already," Mr. Ambrose said.

"We haven't explored that much, but it would be good to do more," Kinexa said, thoughtfully.  "What do you two want to do?" she added, to her roommates.

"Exploring would be good," Terri said.

"I'm up for that," Taia said.

"Let's look around, then," said Kinexa, picking a building or direction at random.

Hermione walked along the campus grounds, holding Nitocris's hand.

"How are you doing?" Nitocris asked.

"Very well," said Hermione.  "...I never thought someone would say, 'I'm taking a walk with my lover' and grab my hand."

Nitocris chuckled.

"Why? You are quite lovely."

"For most of my life, I certainly wasn't," said Hermione.  "Having a well-shaped face now is new to me."

"True, but I am speaking of more than that," Nitocris said.

"I'm not quite sure what you mean, then," said Hermione.

"Your mind and spirit as well," Nitocris siad.
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"...Those aren't very apparent when you look the way that I did," said Hermione.

"That is everyone else's loss then," Nitocris said, giving her hand a comforting squeeze.

"Thank you," said Hermione.

"...this must have been very different for you, back when you came from," she added after a few moments.

"I'm not certain as to what you mean," Nitocris siad.

"Do queens have time to date?" Hermione asked.  "And you wouldn't be alone with a lover, would you?  There would have to be guards, servants, all that..."

"I would have had an arranged marriage, but I wasn't Pharaoh long enough for that to happen," Nitocris said.

"But you would have had lovers anyway, right?" Nitocris asked.