"I'll ask him." Eden smiles softly, looking down at her hands. If it's one thing that can make her resting bitch face soften, it's him.

"He probably will have to work, though." She wrinkles her nose. "You've probably met him, actually. If you've been doing anything for... business, lately." Because there's a chance they've been partnered together - before August made his preference for herself clear to the uppers.

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Eden nods thoughtfully. That was fair. She had preferred to work alone, too. After Knox... Before August, though.

Now she only wanted to work with him.

"That's fair. I was the same." She shrugs a bit and wipes some sweat from her face. "How's dear old Mr. Prescott? Still a raging twat?"

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"I'm not afraid of you or your family, Summer." Eden quips back, before licking her lips.

"But since you asked nicely... I apologize for calling your father a twat." Not that she didn't mean it, but for the friendship lost, and fields unlain, she retracts her statement.

"It's pretty warm in here."

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"Mhm." Eden raises an eyebrow as Summer speaks, listening carefully for any sign of a threat. August was just a few rooms over - she could scream at any time, and Remus would alert him that something was wrong.

He would save her. More than he already had, at least. If anything goes wrong.

"I won't mince my feelings about your family." Eden answer honestly. "Your father may still have you indoctrinated, but as someone who has found herself recently released from a similar situation, I can say without a doubt that you'll regret being his little girl." She sighs and leans her head back. "I regret being mine."

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"Alright." Eden shrugs and stares at the wall of the sauna, before shifting uncomfortably in the thick silence that settles between them.

"Do you want me to leave?" Since she seemed to have booked this space for herself. It seemed polite to offer to go. She could find a different one.

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Summer had always been excellent at turning things onto other people, when the choice was supposed to be hers.

Eden licks her lips and sighs.

"I should get back to August." She clutches her towel tightly, standing up. "I'll see you at your party, probably." Her eyes scan the room before nodding. "Bye."

She steps out of the sauna without another word.

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