Chilly Boulder, Monday Afternoon

[glacial_queen]

The weekend was over and people were back to their old selves, at least if the lovely gifts Momoko had left outside her dorm were any indication. The dorm that a sopping wet Karla had marched to last night in high dudgeon. For reasons. Lots of reasons.

But it was a new day, people were back to normal, graduation was in less than a week, and she'd gotten a special package in the mail from Kaeleer. Banard was apologetic that they likely wouldn't arrive in time for her birthday, but just holding her set Jewels in her hands was enough to make her smile.

There was a cup of coffee in her hand, an ice cream cake with 'Happy Birthday' on it, and a clear view of the street so Karla could wave to anyone who wandered by.

[Open! Was going to be a townie post until I went crazy with the links!]

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[glacial_queen]

Hey. He'd asked. She hadn't been lying when she'd said it had been a crappy week.

"If it helps any, I think Momoko is the crazy one?" she said, having not yet spoken to Warren this afternoon. "That version of her is all...twisted and wrong, threatening to blackmail him."

Who knew, really.

"Ice cream cake?" It helped with the brain-breaking, Jack! Really!

[bitten_notshy]

"Please," Jack answered. "It helps remind me none of that was real. But I'm still sorry the rest of you went through it."