"Oh, so you've met a few! Good. Well - only good in that most everyone else here says they have nothing of the sort where they come from, and their worlds are full of humans with machines and nothing else. The lack of variety gets boring."

She considers him for a moment. Yeah, okay, academic explains a few things about his appearance. Those types never seem to make it outside their libraries and colleges often. Although - he doesn't look completely bookish either.

"What do you study?"