"Maaaaaaaaaaybe. Girlfriend gets first pick of plus one on all invites though," Karolina replied with a shrug. Luckily for Chase, her girlfriend liked to spend a fair chunk of time away. They had rearranged their lives to be more in each other's lives, but still...Karolina had come here first, hadn't she? "And you'd have to promise to behave yourself better than you did at that Sylvester Stallone party."
To Gert's question, Karolina just rolled her eyes. "I mean, if you listen to Brand, yes. Always. At least more than enough that her resources are always stretched to thin—again, by her estimation. For my two cents, there's a lot of scientists up there doing jack all besides enjoying the spaciness of space. Meanwhile, they leave it to the field agents to sweet talk the crazy eight-armed humanoids out of blowing up the earth." She was momentarily distracted from her complaints by the toaster dinging. She brought the first round of toast over to her friends. "Diplomacy is exhausting. I kind of miss the days where all our problems were solved by fighting or B&E."