No, I doubt a lot of us would even be high ranks if that was the objective. Seems randomized.

(nothing more than that, but she can understand this. texas herself wasn't from a normal "life" in particular prior to her job as a courier, being an heiress for a familiga was anything but that. only difference is that she hates the idea of returning to that life, about as much as she despises the thought of them walking all over those unable to fight for themselves. she has a rather complicated relationship with her past because of this. not that she knows about the wings, backstreets, whatever places ishmael does.

terra isn't any better by all means, not in how infected adults and children get treated for contracting oripathy. there is a lot she can talk about from that subject, what she's seen, without also counting that texas has also seen nobility throw around their name as a means of making others suffer. it's a mess.)

So maybe, if you're lucky, you won't be in the basement.

(she's seen enough of it. minimally cleaned, left to for the most part rot whenever staff didn't give much of a damn to go down there. even texas can recall her friends from down there get sneers and jeers any time they're out together, while staff treats her more kindly. it felt fake, it all did.)