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Caritas- Saturday

Today was weird, if that even needed to be said. Going to graduation and remembering that she'd done that just last year except it was six years ago now was odd enough, and then there had been Vikings, which Jaina could identify due to that one night a couple months ago she'd Googled "Vikings" and ended up stuck in a Wikipedia loop for three hours.

Once she'd finished with all things graduation, she'd gone to Caritas a little late for her very last shift. That was somehow stranger than what had happened at the ceremony, and she was firmly not dealing with any sadness or any thinking about how she was gone in a few days. No, tonight she was repressing and making herself a drink because it was her last night and she could, and also advertising a special.

1/2 OFF FOR GRADUATES AND THEIR GUESTS
(Some people might really need it today)

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"Hey, you get called old enough and you start to believe it," she teased back.

"Yeah, yeah," she rolled her eyes. "So how'd your class end up? Got any converts to the Jaina side?"

"I didn't realize I had a side now." Which would be neat. "It went well. There were a few classes that had to be changed last minute thanks to Fandom whimsy, but there were no detentions needed and I'm actually going to miss it. Don't ask me how that happened."

"Didn't you say you kinda had to teach a little at home with the Jedi thing?" Rose checked. "Maybe it's just...fate or something so now you know you'll be good at it."

"I had my cousin with me for a while, trying to get him to open up some and learn, but I wasn't that great at it," she admitted. "Maybe I could be a good teacher, but I don't think I could do it this way again. If there's fighting to be done, I can't spend all my time in front of a class."

"Yeah, I know," she said. "I wouldn't ever say that. But - sometimes it's good to know you can do something, you know?" Rose played with a napkin before adding, "I talked Lissa into accepting a nomination and taking the trials to be Queen."

Look, the ideas were totally connected in Rose's head.

Jaina tilted her head. "Does she want to be Queen?"

She'd almost unwillingly ended up one. It was a very important question to her.

"She can't be Queen," Rose said. "She's gotta have a family member to speak for her once all the trials are over. But Lissa would rather be a good Queen for both our people than have a bad monarch take over and screw it all up."

"I'm not following," Jaina said, resting her forearms on the bar and leaning forward. "Then why's she doing it if she can't actually be Queen?"

"Three reasons," she said, giving that Rose smile of 'yes, I know this is an insane plan.' "One is that it'll take longer to hold the trials with more people participating which gives me more time to find the second reason - I think she has a half-sibling out there. And half-Dragomir is enough to qualify as 'family' so if I can find the kid, she could be Queen." Rose shrugged. "And three - the people adore her. They look at her like she's a saint or something, and seeing her participate makes them all - the common Moroi and the dhampirs and the lesser royals feel like they could actually have a say in anything."

"Then I hope you find the kid," she said, following the logic this time. Still, she shook her head. "Between this and all the time spent talking to Eric, I've heard so much more about vampire politics than I ever thought I would."

Lissa probably hadn't had to rip off any heads, though.

At least not physically. Head-ripping was so Strigoi.

"Maybe it's you," Rose theorized. "Maybe you attract political talk..."

"I'm a little afraid I just attract the guys that bring it," she said, though there really was something to that. And then she smiled teasingly. "And you're just a fluke."

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