Eileen mumbled something unkind under her breath at Key's less-than-polite pint request, but she obliged anyway. He was in a good mood and Jude seemed to perk up about the news, so she returned to pass over the drink.

She hopped up onto the bar, one of her favorite places to perch, to look over their shoulders at the newspaper. "Well that's exciting." They were of course going to be more excited about anything political than she was, but this was good news, for her, specifically.