Jello Dragon Suite, Sunday Evening

[blackmagic_eve]

Eve's portal out wasn't until the next morning, but she was getting her things packed now. Or at least vaguely together, so she wouldn't have to run around the next morning and risk being late

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[walks_two_paths]

Savannah had been having a better day than evening. No, really. This morning had been really nice with Johnny and then she had a fun brunch with Hinata and Summer. It was a good day.

Then Josef blew that all to hell.

That would be why she was knocking on her mother's hotel room door. They needed to talk like now.

[blackmagic_eve]

"Yeah, hang on," Eve yelled when she heard the knock. A moment later, she ws opening the door. "Hey, sweetie."

[walks_two_paths]

Savannah gave her what she hoped passed for a smile and came in. "Hi Mama."

[blackmagic_eve]

"You want something to drink?" Eve asked as she shut the door. "I'm sure we've got something left somewhere."

[walks_two_paths]

Savannah shook her head.

"Tell me about you and Kristof," she said softly.

[blackmagic_eve]

Eve waited until Savannah had taken a seat before she started to talk.

"You know I made my living teaching." It was how she'd supported them... well, that and some of the darker magic. "Well, before you were born, I was mostly teaching defensive magic to prissy little bitch witches whose mothers wanted them to know how to defend themselves. Prissy little bitch witches who took five minutes to cast a successful spell."

She ran her fingers through her hair. "I'd also done some teaching with sorcerers, teaching them witch magic. Not much, because of the whole not getting along thing, but some."

[walks_two_paths]

Savannah nodded, watching her. "This was how you met Kristof?"

[blackmagic_eve]

"Yeah." Eve nodded. "He wanted me to teach him. And at first I was like, no fucking way, because this wasn't just some back-alley sorcerer, this was Thomas Nast's elder son and the friggin' heir to the Cabal. But... I did it. And the more often I taught him, the closer we got."

[walks_two_paths]

"And you started falling in love with him?" Savannah was full of questions, but she wasn't going to interrupt.

[blackmagic_eve]

"Yeah, I did." Eve smiled faintly. "God, I didn't want to. He was a sorcerer, for fuck's sake. But he was just so charming... and there was a ruthlessness to him that appealed to me a little, too."

[walks_two_paths]

"He was strong and honest about who and what he was?"

[blackmagic_eve]

"Exactly," Eve said. "He made no bones about the fact that he could be kind of an asshole sometimes."

She smiled fondly. "I still remember exactly what it was that made me start realizing I'd fallen for him."

[walks_two_paths]

She tilted her head, but didn't say anything.

[blackmagic_eve]

"He blew off a board meeting because Sean got hit in the head with a baseball."

[walks_two_paths]

Savannah let out a breath. "Let me guess. He got into trouble for it."

[blackmagic_eve]

"Thomas didn't think it merited ditching a board meeting, yeah."