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Pff. It's an archaic usage of the word—"maid" meaning "young woman," rather than "maid" as "housekeeper."

Sure, whatever.

[Gives a dismissive handflappy motion.]

What about you and Ruby?

Did we have one, do you mean?

Well—we didn't really have a ceremony, yet. After all, you would have been invited if we'd had a proper party, but I don't have quite the pull to sneak you all out from Tokyo-F.

Uh, no, I meant for the 'maid' thing––

[but wait]

. . .Are you two in marriage?

I've been coaxed into retirement from my freewheeling and no-commitment ways, it seems.

Oh.

[Tipping her head to the side –– this wasn't a match she'd seen coming. . .]

Uhm –– congratulations. You didn't have a party?

Not yet. All the best people wouldn't be able to be there, after all.

Although I guess you could say having a joint graduation was the next best thing.

[She crosses one leg over the other, frowning a little in confusion.]

. . .What do you mean? If you can throw a party for us, then that covers people who're still here and everyone who stuck around after their "graduation". Doesn't that cover everyone? Who's missing?

...I guess it's true that things have changed a little bit since then. We can write letters back and forth, we can visit properly...

You could do it with us at the same time?

––But I still want the better party inside the other party. You're nice to a lot of people that aren't exactly nice to me, I don't want to deal with them the whole time.

[See also: the pure joy catra(s) feel at having a thing that's better and exclusive.]

Oh, of course. It should be a party for you, when it's your wedding.

And anyway just because I'm nice to people doesn't mean I'd invite them to my wedding.

[Tail swish swish swish :) :) :)]

Cool. Thanks. . . for, you know, doing all this.

[Nnnnnow she just has to build up the stones to talk to Aster about it.]

...you'll do fine. You both know how you feel about each other, after all.

What? I don't know what you're talking about.

Well, good, then.

I'm really happy for you.

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