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Jaina had been in sort of a strange mood yesterday, and knowing what was going on where Tiny Mom was was turning it from a strange mood into a serious one. She was doing her best to shake it off, though, and she had gotten Very Good at repression over the years.

Helping her mood was the fact that Tino was experimenting today, putting various things together to come up with new drinks. He wasn't doing too well, and his facial expressions at finding this out were nothing short of classic.

He also couldn't seem to understand why Jaina kept turning down trying them...

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"Yeah. It's why I'm not worrying as much about her as most people would. Even when I thought she finally snapped, she turned out to be right," she said. Though even after they got Jacen back from the Vong, Jaina had never been quite able to express that 'you were right' to her mother. "Things get bad, and she'll be okay, and she'll charge on to the next thing even stronger."

"Uh huh," Tahiri said affectionately. "She puts the rest of us to shame sometimes that way. Always will."

"Though I do have to say I'd really rather the rest of us never have to get that good at it," she said wryly.

Tahiri made a vague noise of agreement. "One expert of that sort is enough for any family." Which she apparently considered herself part of now. Hmm.

It seemed Jaina still considered Tahiri part of it, too. "Of course, in order to stop that sort of thing from happening, we'd have to actually learn to stay out of the action and I don't see that happening," she said. "It's even in my job title."

"Do you have business cards?" Tahiri teased, a slight amused eyeroll expressing exactly what she thought of the possibility of them staying out of the action. Because really. "At least we're all used to it by now."

Jaina snorted. "I can see me with business cards. I can pass them out preferably after I've doled out some damage, so they can tell their friends."

"Tell their friends?" Tahiri snickered. "'I got my butt kicked by the Sword of the Jedi, ask me how?'"

"That would be a great slogan," she pointed out with a lopsided grin.

"It would. Maybe you should get cards with that on there," Tahiri replied, drawing patterns in the condensation on her glass. "Just so you can say you have them."

"I would, but I'm both a Jedi and a teacher, which means my paycheck is kind of not worth that splurge," she said. "Unless people start tipping me really well."

"And as a Jedi, I can't help you much in that department," Tahiri said, looking apologetic. "Maybe someone else will, though."

"Don't worry about it," she assured her. "If I really want business cards, I can always see what I can win at the tables in Atlantic City or Vegas."

Because while she was kidding, she'd totally won good amounts at the tables there before.

"Now you sound more like your dad," Tahiri said with a chuckle. "That doesn't surprise me either."

"He did learn poker because I taught him," Jaina said proudly. "I figured I might as well return the favor for him teaching me all the things he wasn't supposed to when Mom wasn't looking."

"I bet she probably knew he would anyway," Tahiri laughed. "Have you really won a lot at the casinos here?"

They didn't have cards that changed. That had to be easier than sabacc.

"I did really well when I went there with John once, to the point where we had to leave because people were starting to watch me," she said. "Mostly I play for a while and try to win just enough to make me happy and then I can leave."

"So I don't have to worry about seeing you on one of those poker tournaments on TV, then," Tahiri decided. "I still don't understand why those are on the sports channels, by the way."

"Because sitting in a chair all day and staring at cards is athletic now," Jaina deadpanned. "Where have you been?"

"Too busy falling down turbolift shafts and sitting in on strategic meetings to pay attention, I guess," Tahiri retorted easily. "I must miss out on all the important things that way."

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