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Ai-Ling hates formal dinners. She hates them very much indeed. In fact, the only pleasure she usually gains from them is to try and sabotage them in as inventive a way as possible, while staying just out of actualy trouble.

This time, it's vitally important she makes a good impression on her future sister-in-law, so she's practically squirming as she dresses in her formal silks and does her hair up neatly and respectably. Then the need to do something other than what's expected gets too much and she makes a break for it. There's still an hour or so before she needs to be anywhere, so she heads straight towards the gardens, only opccasionally remembering she doesn't want to end up muddy and disshevelled.

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"I know he knows how," Sakari argues with a giggle, "if only because I had to take lessons with him."

She looks like she might be refraining from hugging the girl again, hands clasped in front of her tightly. "They'll be so excited to get a letter from you. You should have seen my mom's face when she realized she couldn't come with me to meet you. She was so jealous."

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"Why couldn't she come?"

Ai-Ling's genuine with the question.

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"She's really not supposed to travel," Sakari explains, apparently unsurprised that Miki never mentioned this. "She was such a great warrior for so long, but... well, she says she used her body up too quick. She can still fight and walk and everything but traveling is really hard on her."

...and because Sakari insisted it wouldn't be at all helpful to the new independent and powerful image of the South if her parents escorted her everywhere.

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"Oh."

Ai-Ling frowns for a second, unsure what to do with the sudden wave of pity, but she quickly grins again. "I guess we'll have to get there as quickly as possible.

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"She'll love it," Sakari assures her, grinning brightly. "Mom and Dad both, they can't wait to meet you." She beams, already fond of her future sister-in-law and seeing no reason why she shouldn't consider her family already.

"You'll get to meet Panya, too. I bet you'll get along great with her."

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"Miki says she's an unbearable brat," Ai-Ling says.

"So I love her already."