"Ah," Kari said, nodding in instantaneous understanding. "She's practicing."
Xotll took pride in relatively few things, in the grand scheme of thing, but she took her job as bartender/proprietress remarkably seriously. No one had seemingly ever told her it had probably been a job-in-name-only because Grilka couldn't legally own businesses in Terran Allied Space. Or maybe they had, but she wanted to be good at in anyway. She had a lexicon of drinks from a hundred different planets. Some of them were radioactive. She was a very good bartender, really.
"When I first came in here," Kari informed him, "I made the mistake of ordering a Pink Lady. It's got egg whites. I felt so bad watching her try to crack chicken eggs that I wound up doing tequila shots for the rest of the night." Kari thought back to that night, idly. "Not the best decision, objectively."
He eyed the proffered drink, which looked kind of like gelatinous soda and smelled strongly of vodka. Xotll, mercifully, picked that moment to deliver Kari's drink, and gave Leon a very enthusiastic and not at all subtle thumbs up. Given that this was accompanied by Leon equally unsubtly checking Kari out, it was starting to paint a remarkably unexpected picture.
Honestly. If he weren't a Rasmodian, Kari would think he was trying very badly to get laid. But Kari had been to their home planet, and had gotten a remarkably evocative look for Rasmodian culture and, uh, tastes. It wasn't for him, and he was quite sure he wasn't for them, either, given that he wasn't an identical twin.
"The last person to sit there and offer me drinks," he pointed out, "did a better job with both. Although I suppose sit is a strong word. Ey been in to haze you yet?" He knew ey had, or he wouldn't have given up the game. "Still have any dignity left? Or is that why you're drinking a glass full of fizzing vodka jello?"
Xotll took pride in relatively few things, in the grand scheme of thing, but she took her job as bartender/proprietress remarkably seriously. No one had seemingly ever told her it had probably been a job-in-name-only because Grilka couldn't legally own businesses in Terran Allied Space. Or maybe they had, but she wanted to be good at in anyway. She had a lexicon of drinks from a hundred different planets. Some of them were radioactive. She was a very good bartender, really.
"When I first came in here," Kari informed him, "I made the mistake of ordering a Pink Lady. It's got egg whites. I felt so bad watching her try to crack chicken eggs that I wound up doing tequila shots for the rest of the night." Kari thought back to that night, idly. "Not the best decision, objectively."
He eyed the proffered drink, which looked kind of like gelatinous soda and smelled strongly of vodka. Xotll, mercifully, picked that moment to deliver Kari's drink, and gave Leon a very enthusiastic and not at all subtle thumbs up. Given that this was accompanied by Leon equally unsubtly checking Kari out, it was starting to paint a remarkably unexpected picture.
Honestly. If he weren't a Rasmodian, Kari would think he was trying very badly to get laid. But Kari had been to their home planet, and had gotten a remarkably evocative look for Rasmodian culture and, uh, tastes. It wasn't for him, and he was quite sure he wasn't for them, either, given that he wasn't an identical twin.
"The last person to sit there and offer me drinks," he pointed out, "did a better job with both. Although I suppose sit is a strong word. Ey been in to haze you yet?" He knew ey had, or he wouldn't have given up the game. "Still have any dignity left? Or is that why you're drinking a glass full of fizzing vodka jello?"
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