"A work party," clarified Martha, because she didn't want the other woman to think she was getting an OBE or something. "But yeah, this is definitely far better--less watching my back around the administrators, less politics, a lot more...uh."

She appraised the crowd, which did have a lot of handsome men in it, it was true. "Babes. Or at least babes you can actually snog without dying of embarrassment on every shift for the next six weeks."