<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The man smiles, while remaining maddeningly calm.<br/>"I take it you were an, ahem, docile student then? Certainly wouldn't like to be subjected to such punishments, I believe!"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"I was an apt pupil," she shrugs.  "I was already familiar with some of the basic concepts, for...cultural reasons, shall we say?  And I had no other distractions.  My master was pleased enough to praise me, which might have caused some trouble with the others had I not been so obviously focused on our tasks.  Still, I am not the best among my class.  Just the most broadly competent."