Chase had definitely never heard of and had never used (or been) peerage, then. "Well, where I come from, academia is pretty much the wave of the future," he promises. "People spend decades in school trying to get degrees. I finished secondary, did my pre-med, then med school, then I've still been specializing until all of three years ago," he admits with a scoff. "I don't know that it's head in the clouds anymore. I think it's just life."