It was not something that would ever happen in her life. In Tarclaver, unmarried women were not allowed to use computers.

Up until the seed list was posted, the manual engineering drawing in which she had been trained had interested her to a certain extent. Had she been listed higher, she might have been mated with a partner for whom she could work on computer-aided design. In that case, she might have looked forward to The Long Weekend that was part of the competition for mates in Tarclaver.