Karolina tossed Chase a skeptical look, as she always did when she called the Stallone incident an "honest mistake." She sat herself down near Gert and pinched a piece of toast between her fingers. It was still a little hot, but it smelled amazing. She couldn't help but grin about Gert's correlation between movie stars and diplomacy. "That's me. A regular Shirley Temple." Most of the actors she knew didn't have the attention span to stay committed to a country long enough to be a diplomat.
"At least we did our own thing back then," she offered, and this earned an affirmative noise from Chase whose mouth was otherwise full of toast. "Simpler times." That was mostly said out of hindsight. She knew in the back of her mind that there was nothing simple about being homeless and hunted as they had been.