"Well, you do at least have a helmet, should any emergency arise." Judith smiled. "And much appreciated."
Then she looked embarrassed. "Politics, unfortunately. I was a psych major, but I kind of got dragged into politics during my last year at ESU. Wanted to find some way to get out of it, but," Judith would be surprised later at how much she found herself opening up. "The tax system was downright regressive, environmental regulation was some kind of foreign concept -- and still not as foreign a concept as marriage equality -- and instead of wriggling out I started reading people the riot act, and then I was definitely stuck in it."
...As much as she whined about being queen, fixing even some of that crap had felt good.