Abbie murmurs her thanks, and takes a moment to smooth her skirt underneath her before she sits, laughing softly in response to his statement. "I don't know if you're a Star Trek fan, but that sounds vaguely ... Borg-ish. Resistance is futile, and all of that."

She sighs, and shrugs, and her smile shifts into something a little more self-conscious than usual. "Before this, I spent the last few years in grad school. I haven't worked at a school before - but I was a librarian all throughout college."