Canon is Scott Westerfield's Leviathan Trilogy

[prince_dummkopf]

My Most Esteemed and Honorable Mundane,

While I am certainly glad that you've deigned it possible for me to be, as you say, taken from after the war but now I have obligations with the Zoological Society as well as um, other obligations to Deryn. While I appreciate your "picking me up" I'm going to ask that you either find me somewhere to be or set me at my leisure.

Regards,

Aleksandar Hohenburg

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take a look at imperial_saga?

[grand_theft_moe]

You're a zoologist? What kind of animals do you study?

[prince_dummkopf]

[He gives a small smile.]

Primates mainly.