You are quite right that at this point, there is no hope of secrecy here. My understanding is that everyone working here, for Albion, hopes we can learn to live together, with different strengths and skills and interests. (Even if that seems rather a long way away at times.) Even if we've got some different ideas about what that might look like in practical terms.

As to Oxford, that seems a fine sort of quest, all things considered. It's exactly the sort of thing that will need sorting out by someone, and why shouldn't you be one of the first?

And if we ever do sort out the wards, there are other places you could go. All sorts of universities in America, or on the Continent. I keep wondering about astronomers in other places, what they know that I don't. And even the simple things, like what the stars actually look like in Australia or New Zealand.