well, I had hoped for a trope flipping, but this is good too.
Also, I'm not sure how wide-spread education is, but the girl didn't seem the type to have been learned or practiced enough to write such a clean, tidy note. I mean, she'd gone without thumbs for a while. the note should have been chicken scratch. MC was kinda dumb, especially since she said she wasn't interested in the orphanage before they left?