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Caritas, Saturday

Well, it was safe to say that Tino was prepared for the 4th with the massive amount of red, white, and blue decorations going on.

"You know it's not until Tuesday, right?" Jane asked, looking around at the bar that looked like patriotism had thrown up all over the place.

He had not known, it seemed. As the rest of the evening was filled with sullen silence on his end and glares as he pulled down each decoration like it offended him.

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Why hadn't Tino put up some maple leaves?

"Hello, Jane," Stark said as he walked in.

He gave Tino something of a look but didn't comment. It was almost always best not to comment.

Tino did what Tinos do. Be difficult.

"Hi, Stark," Jane said, glancing away from Tino's 'work' to offer him a smile.

Tino was just Like That.

"How are you?" he asked, sliding onto a stool. "Quiet week?"

"Well, with the break," Jane said, shrugging a little. "It's given me more time to go do stuff on the mainland at least."

"Hero stuff?" Stark asked. "Or other stuff? Good stuff, I hope."

"Hero stuff," Jane said, sounding proud of herself. "And also some other non-hero stuff that's much less interesting."

Doctor visits, checking on Darcy.

"Good then, for the hero stuff," Stark said, nodding.

"And I hope it wasn't bad less interesting. Sometimes not interesting is just necessary. And sometimes it's better not to be interesting. Sometimes things are far too interesting. You've been well?"

Jane nodded along with each of those sentences. "Oh, I'm good. Great even."

All things considered.

"I was actually thinking about maybe doing something on the beach for the holiday."

"The beach here?" Stark asked. "Like a party? This is one of the grilling holidays, isn't it? With fireworks?"

Jane, you were going to have an overexcited Muppet bird at your beach party.

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Amaya nodded down the bar at Stark with a lift of her very small glass of very slowly sipped Asgardian mead. "Hey, there, Stark," she said. "Had a whistle that needed wetting tonight, too?"

"I needed something to do," Stark said. "A drink seemed like a good idea."

And he tried not to sit alone in his apartment drinking ever because that could only end badly.

"How are you, Amaya?"

"Thinking the same thing," Amaya admitted with a bit of a shrug. "And didn't feel like poking at Diaz to make a beach thing out of it again. In general, with her, until it's with an actual weapon, it's best to let her do the poking at in most cases."

"She can be intimidating," Stark said. That was putting it very mildly.

"I wouldn't want to be near her with a weapon. I signed up for your class, again."

Speaking of weapons.

"She's not so bad," Amaya said, her smile going a bit fond, "once you get to know her a bit. But don't tell her I said that! But what you can tell her is that I said if there's anyone I want near me with a weapon, it'd probably be her, because if she wound up needing to use it, even on me, I know she'd be doing it properly.

"And did you now?" She beamed a bit proudly there, but, well, she'd have been a little disappointed if he didn't, since he was the one to suggest to her that she should keep up on the blacksmithing stuff again for the second session. "That's great, Stark! I'm real excited to start teaching some of the more interesting stuff, too, I think you all'll have a great time with it."

Stark preferred not to have weapons used on him at all, Amaya!

"I did," he confirmed, smiling. "I enjoy it. All of the steps and then having something tangible at the end. Something I can look at and go 'I made this.'"

And maybe show off. That might be fun.

"Well, we'll be jumping around a bit more this time around," Amaya warned him, "so less focusing on a specific project and just trying different things, but I think there'd still be some satisfaction in there, all the same. You're pretty pleased with how your sword turned out, though? Think you'll get a lot of use out of it?"

Look, there weren't as many sword users on the island these days! They could always use more!

"I think it turned out well enough," Stark said. He only sounded a little uncertain. "I don't know that I'll really be able to use it. I don't know how."

Maybe he could ask Gladio?

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Amaya could probably stand to get out of her shop a little more these days, especially since, during the summer sessions, even her class was held in her shop. And a good way to do just that, without leaning on there being some big event or whatnot going on, was to just hit up the local water holes, something she should probably be doing more often anyway.

"Hey, there, Jane," she greeted as she took a seat and nodded. "How's it going?"

Well, besides the apparent de-decoration, anyway, but Amaya wasn't sure quite yet if she wanted to know more about that.

"Hi, Amaya," Jane said with a smile because any and all company that wasn't Tino was appreciated today. "I think I upset him."

"Well," Amaya offered, in a sort of consoling tone, "from my experience, that's not exactly a hard thing to do. A bit sensitive," if she intended to lower her voice so that Tino didn't overhear it, she sure did a very poor job of it, "really." She shrugged. "What can you do?"

But then, a moment later, she did have to ask: "What did you do?"

"I reminded him it wasn't the 4th just yet," Jane said. "But he was trying to light sparklers and I'm pretty sure the place would go up in a blaze if they hit the decorations."

And Tuesday? Not her shift.

"Well," Amaya said, after a moment to consider that, "it would give the firefighters something to do."

Which was a pretty cavalier attitude for someone who worked with fire every day of her life, but, then again, maybe that was just because she worked with fire every day of her life.

"But overall," she concluded, "that was probably a wise decision on your part. Not the kind of bonfire I think anyone wants on a Saturday night."

Or probably technically any night, but who was she to judge?

And then Jane would get in trouble with Kitty and it was best to just avoid that.

She nodded, trying not to think about how it would have been job creating. "What can I get you?"

"I'm always one for a good, solid ale," Amaya said, with another stout little nod, "unless there's anything in particular you'd recommend. Always interested to try something a bit new, especially if there's a bit of a kick in it that might put a mule to shame."

"I have some mead from New Asgard," Jane said, considering that. "Which should probably only be sipped. Slowly. In moderation."

Look, they took getting drunk seriously there.