[Though she wanted that life, simple and routine and filled with the joys and trials of a rustic existence, Konoha has had her share of travels unwilling... but it's something so against what she would choose for herself that it barely even registers in her mind as something to list or bring up. Well, unless someone asked, or she was bemoaning her misfortune to be spirited away not once, but twice...

Still, despite her experiences, she listens to Nikolai as if she were still that farm girl who had never left nor aspired to leave her parents' village, smiling a little bit at the joke. (Joke, right?)]

You talk really fancy...

['Preclude them from dignity", that was educated stuff right there! If she looks genuinely impressed just because he has a way with words it's because... she is.]

I sort of imagined you'd sound like the fishermen I know, but... You need book schooling to be a captain, huh?