Snippet #1177073

The menu was apparently too small, because she was recognized right away. It probably had nothing to do with being a six foot tall platinum blonde in rather memorable garb, or that she stuck out like a sore thumb in the bar environment. She did try, for a moment to shrink behind her cover and pretend not to notice, but Captain Highwind did have a certain flair of personality about him that defied her anonymity.

“Hell,” she sighed, letting the menu flop down on the table. “You didn’t bring me to Kishar to collect my bounty, so I suppose the least I could do is share a meal with you,” she said, managing a smile.

It was good that he offered to pay, since her plan had been to skip out on the check. Jade decided that particular nugget of information wasn’t necessary to share with the others. She pulled her glasses and scarf off to ease the misery a little, and looked up at them with her gem-like, pupil-less emerald eyes and slid the menu she’d been hiding behind into the middle of the table.

“As far as I can figure, you did me a rare favor: my people don’t make it out of the desert very often. It’s humid and miserable here, but I walked down a main avenue in plain sight and nobody tried to kill me. It was a very refreshing change of pace. Come-on, sit down, no need to be formal with me: I spent more than one evening caged up in your hold, which practically makes us married!” Jade gave the captain a bit of a grin, then beckoned the rest of the group to come sit down.