The original banquet table that had them sitting on opposite ends of the room had been exchanged at some point for a much shorter table that would have allowed them to actually reach out and touch—if they were both standing up and were stretching their arms as far down the table as possible, so not actually all that different from the original distance since they weren’t really at risk of bumping elbows, but it still felt far less formal than their original meals had been. She couldn’t recall when it had happened, but her focus was on her lessons, not the furniture.
