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"Awww, look at you," Angela said, leaning over the picture. "You're all little. Wow, how old is this? You look so short." She smiled at the sight of his mother--the one who'd made the blanket for her. And his little sister was adorable.

"This is your brother?" she asked, tracing a finger over the image of the serious young man in the photo. "You all look really close."

She didn't have any pictures of her family anymore. Anything she had left of her mother, her great uncle had taken away. And her father didn't really care about that sort of thing. Not that she wanted that old fool's picture anyway.

"You were so cute!" Angela teased. "And short." She grinned. "It's a great picture." When he offered the jelly beans, she hesitated because she hadn't had jelly beans since before her mother died. After a moment, she reached in and picked out a few of the pink ones since pink frequently meant strawberry.

"I haven't had these in ages."

"Oh, nice," Angela said, looking closely at the picture. She smiled again at the site of min-Jukka. He really was adorable. "I knew a girl back at the court with heterochromia. Her eyes were so beautiful." She looked up at him curiously. "Is it, um, is it alright if I asked what happened? I mean, you don't have to tell me if you don't want."

"It just looks so painful."

"That's horrible!" Angela said. "I hope your family fed that sorry b*****d to an angry shark! What kind of person does that to someone else?" Especially because Jukka said it was a long time ago, so he had to have been pretty young when it happened. That was just...horrific.

She reached up carefully and pulled him into a careful hug. "I know it was a long time ago, but that's still horrible."

"Last year!?" Angela asked pulling away. "And the guy didn't even go to prison? Really? Did you at least break his arms? Or his face or something? That just...eurgh. I don't know if I should hope to meet this person so I can dislocate his kneecaps, or if I should hope never to meet him so I don't have to go to prison for assault when I do."

"That is just...I can't believe he's still working on a boat somewhere! I don't care how crabby the rain makes you, you can't just take a knife to someone's face. That's horrible!"

Without realizing, she was starting to glow brightly again. It was just that kind of thing...really. She may lose her temper a lot, but she didn't permanently maim people.

~Keina Alappassi~

Keina hummed and sang to herself as she walked down the halls of Rosentale academy. She was carrying a small box of supplies and wearing her medical scrubs. The young woman was very excited to be starting her new job, she just hoped that her boss, Javor, turned out to be a nice guy. She had heard a lot about the man when she was applying for the job.

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one....” She sang, in a daze of excitement.

Upon reaching the infirmary she took a deep breath and opened the door. She stepped inside and gazed around, there seemed to be quite a few people. That was a good thing, maybe. But should there really be that many patients inside of a school's infirmary? She had her doubts about that.

Keina hoped that Javor knew she was coming. Someone should have told him by now, besides, he was going to be able to boss her around all he wanted.

Angela huffed a sigh, leaning back in her chair. "I'm not going to hurt myself. That just really bothers me that he hurt you and essentially got away with it. I've seen how much it bothers you. Hmph. I know enough water fae who can find his sorry a** that he could find himself cursed into the next century."

It was stupid to feel guilty she hadn't been there to stop it, considering she didn't even know Jukka existed a year ago, but she still did feel bad about it. And especially bad that she couldn't do anything to help him now.