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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

As the picnic continued, there were tables and chairs arranged on the lawn, the food smelled delicious and inviting, and no one was going to be bitey without explicit consent. Hopefully, everyone would take some time to enjoy themselves!

[OCD is up! This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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"Breaking things is a lot easier than changing them," Lana pointed out. "I'm not saying they shouldn't have tried, or maybe asked for more help, but hopefully they've learned to do that in future. Any lesson you walk away from is a good one."

Sith.

"And what about the people they hurt in being so careless????????????" Nina asked, frowning. "Are they, like, just to learn lessons too?????????"

"Of course," Lana said. "Any battle you walk away from is a lesson. It's not like any of us are experienced Moffs or anything - we all probably could have done something better."

She frowned. "I killed one of those vampires. It startled me how easily it died. If another had been there, they probably could have gotten me in that second. I need to be more careful. At least mine was a lesson without injury. I was lucky."

"There were people who weren't lucky," Nina said quietly. "And that's not through their own carelessness. They wouldn't have been in danger if it hadn't been for Prompto and Norman."

Her gaze sought them out. Prompto trying too hard to be cheerful, taking pictures. Norman reading a book of some sort under a tree.

"I'm so angry at them. Especially Prompto. He's training to be a guardian, a protector, and he did that. He put innocent people in danger and, like, if we were anywhere but here, anywhere but this island... I don't think it would have just gone away, the way it did. I don't know what to do."

Could she live with herself, if she just forgave them so easily? It wasn't a small mistake they'd made. Lives had been lost. Lives that mattered to Nina.

"Did you know that Vette and Sidon were two of the bitten?" she asked Lana. "That, if this hadn't gone away, they'd still be out there, dead and raving and hurting others. All because of Prompto and Norman."

"They wouldn't have been in danger right then if not for Prompto and Norman," Lana corrected. "I doubt our safety would have lasted. But absolutely, be angry with them about it. They should have been more careful, and people got hurt."

She glanced toward Prompto. "If he's training to be a protector, knowing he failed and hurt those he cares about is probably a terrible lesson, but I doubt he'll forget it. And honestly, Nina, you can't dwell on 'if'. That's a horrible if, but it didn't happen. A lot of awful things might happen. Best to focus on the ones that do."

"I can't help it," she said, watching Prompto. "One of my jobs is to think of the 'if' and take steps to make sure the if that happens is the best one."

Had she ever told Lana what she did?

"And... and if I lost Vette... or Sidon... I don't know what I'd do..........."

"I'm not saying don't think of them ahead of time," Lana corrected. "Absolutely do. But once something's passed, unless the ifs teach you something, why bother? There are better ways to fuel your anger. And Vette and Sidon are both better now. We'll see they stay that way."

"I wasn't even here," Nina admitted. "Maybe I'm the angriest at myself."

How could she look after people if she wasn't around?

"That's a good anger," Lana said. "It's less likely to send you off on a mad chase, in my experience."

"A mad chase where?????? I don't know what to do about being so angry."

"Normally I'd say channel it into the Force," Lana said. "Channel it into...whatever you do? Go to the salle and work it out? Use it to become a better fighter."

"But, like, that doesn't help when I wasn't even here, Lana," Nina sighed, slumping back in her chair, decidedly unladylike in that moment. "No amount of working out is going to get past that or how disappointed I am in Prompto."

"I don't know what to tell you about that," Lana confessed. "Just...try and work past it. You're human; so is Prompto."

"Every answer I've got to that all comes back to the 'what ifs'," Nina admitted ruefully, looking up at Lana. "And I don't know how to let go of those."

She'd never needed to before. Nina lived life gleefully indulging in the 'what ifs'.

"Well, it's that or never be okay with yourself or Prompto again," Lana pointed out.

Nina looked, er, rather guilty at that.

Because that was... where she'd been headed, why yes.

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