She was a bit surprised seeing the extent to which Ashe was throwing off all her previous reserve to be childish.

"Being queen must have been even more stressful than I thought," Caroline supposed. "If she's going THIS far to regress..."

"You worried about her?" Katrina asked.

"Not at all," Caroline insisted, "As long as she and her family are happy, that's all that matters. Plus, I have heard wonderful things about Raminas and Emmy's reign."

"Indeed," Katrina said. They milled about to some other notable guests.

Tiana and Naveen were there, both as guests and as the festivities' caterers. "Cajun cuisine in a New England town. Peculiar combination."

"But it works fantastically well," Ichabod said.

"Thank ya kindly," the southern belle princess told the detective/schoolteacher.

They chuckled. "So, anything new to report in your neck of the woods?"

"Aside from the fact that New Orleans is continuing to gradually sink like Mexico City and Jakarta, not much else," said Naveen with a chuckle, "But Maldonia's official consulate is now set up there."