Imperial Palace- Bastion

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Jaina had had a while now to actually start picking up on this whole empress thing, so she was glad to have a break for something more normal. Also, she was maybe a little self-conscious (this was rare) because no one from Fandom had actually seen her since everything had happened, and she remembered how different Tenel Ka had seemed after being put in a similar position. As far as Jaina was aware the only thing different about her was that she actually looked pregnant these days, but still. She wondered.

And anyway, she still went out to meet Tahiri when she heard she was here, since she figured no one should have to show up and get greeted by a team of Imperials.

[For Tahiri yay!]

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"More, actually, because this is where my bed is and I'm currently appreciating sleep," Jaina said honestly, gesturing to a door. "Jag and I have our quarters in there, and the other you is across the hall. You're going to be right down here, since you're important enough to be on the good floor."

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Maybe she'd go talk to her other self later, Tahiri thought, if it didn't turn out to be too weird.

"I'm honored," she said, "not to mention a little more excited than I thought I'd be about staying somewhere with actual technology again."

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"Does it ever get easier, getting used to that?" Jaina wondered. "Even after all this time?"

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"Sure," Tahiri said. "I've gotten pretty good at making the mental adjustment, but for the first day or so it always feels kind of like jumping into a freezing cold lake. Where you know it's going to be freezing cold as soon as you hit the water, but it's still not the temperature you've been used to."

She fiddled absently with a stray lock of hair. "They're coming around on the idea, some faster than others."

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"Hopefully they'll get there sooner or later," Jaina said. "If only to keep you from the technological culture shock. Literally."

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"I'll be okay, honest," Tahiri told her. "It's not like I have to jump back and forth every week or anything like that, because I'm pretty sure that would be a lot worse. Or at least a lot more annoying. So is there anything around here I'm not allowed to touch, or breathe on, or look at funny?"

She was kidding. Mostly.

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"Just my bodyguard, but you don't even have to look at him funny for him to get weird," Jaina said, hitting the controls to open the door to Tahiri's room, which was ridiculously upscale. "Hopefully this'll work for you."