>>19363037Carmody looks up and sets the mop aside for now when she sees Ash Romero approach.
>"Coach Ash! So great to see you again!"She bounds forward like she's going to give a hug, but they're both a little messy, so she holds back. Her excitement is still palpable. She came here to talk to Ash about the difficult stuff, but her first impulse is just being glad to see her again and eager to catch up about good and exciting things.
And that's fine, right? There's bad shit going on, but it's important to make time for the good.
>"There's a lot of really exciting stuff going on. I watched you in the B1 and Paule in Japan and even if a lot of those matches didn't go your way, I just wanna say I have mad respect for what you guys did. Both of you. And I wanna make sure and say that now, because it's really important. And there's been some other cool, positive stuff going on in my life too, that I wanna tell you about real soon."Her smile starts to fall a little bit.
>"But I've got some other stuff that's not gonna be as fun to talk about."She lowers her voice to a near whisper.
>"There's something going on with Kanako. Something more than just her getting friendly with the woman who put me in the hospital. I've been trying to look into it, and there's still a lot I don't know. But what I do know, I don't like. Can we talk just a moment in private? And in person? For reasons I'll get to, there's gonna be a lot of stuff that it just ain't safe to discuss on the phone for a while, especially in a text." 