"Yup! --Thanks -" Mira sets about steeping her tea and smiles at the almost immediate mint smell. "I miss it kinda. I'm from here, though. Just took a little break for fivish years. A really, uh, writing heavy break. I feel like everyone somehow ends up back here sooner or later, though."

She laughs. "I figure, you apply to Harvard because you already have a sizable ego or you're really hoping to develop one. We were too busy having parties for that. Or in my case sometimes geeking out over the observatory." Mira takes a drink.

"My god, Tennessee, you mean there are real people who go to college there?" she jokes. "Yeah, being from nowhere Maine is weird enough, I can only imagine. To be fair the only thing I know about Tennessee is...um, there's got a good women's basketball team? My roommate a couple years was from Connecticut and we always ended up watching."