Prompt: Write a story about Heather adjusting to palace life after marrying Smalls.

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Heather remembered from her very earliest age hearing her father say, with great reverence,

"An education is a rabbit's greatest weapon. An educated argument can sway the minds of thousands and save the lives of many more."

Heather and Picket had been homeschooled. Of course, they had, even the semblance of a school system that had been left wasn't one Whittel approved of, so he taught them at home. Heather hadn't realized that this was a strange way of learning until she was much older, nor that some of the things she learned were a little odd. Or surprising, Some of the things she knew were surprising. Although she and Picket had both been taught history, mathematics, basic science, geography, how to read and write, there had been a wealth of other information they learned. Really, anything their father had deemed important enough to know they knew, often without any explanation as to why. They learned philosophy, psychology, biology (Picket's least favorite) and physics, but also other things as well.

At the time Heather hadn't known why court manners would have ever been important, but she was grateful later. Picket hated those lessons, despised them with a passion. He'd done anything he could to get out of them and hadn't succeeded any more than when he tried to dodge biology.

They were very lucky, Heather presumed, to have had such a good education, to have known so much. There was, of course, the neglect paid to there knowledge of current events, though since that was rectified Heather no longer could complain.

Heather and Picket had had a very similar education to what they would have had if they were a lord's children.

Basically, Heather didn't have to adjust to much.

I technically answered the prompt.

Also, this is just my opinion.

Whittel is that homeschool parent where everything is a learning opportunity. School never stops.