There had never been any question for Nina about returning to Austin after graduate school, and now that she'd lived right along with the city through the horrors of 2016, there had never been a point in which she'd wished to be anywhere else. Like it or not, she was stuck there, so she figured she may as well make the most of it or die trying.
She returned the smile, looking at Jadyn across the table with that easy sort of companionship that came with understanding the other person's approach to life. As much as she loved Demi, Nina needed the stability of people like Dani and Jadyn to remind her that she wasn't entirely dull for being the way she was. "Here's the thing, though. I think we're too used to applying other people's ideas of what makes an 'exciting life' to our own. And it's certainly not like the work we do is all that unimportant." Even if her department continued to shunt off the least offensive cases to her, even more so now after what had happened on the first of the month. It was still making something of a difference.