She batted her eyes at him when he called her dove again. It was still strange but somewhat familiar at the same time. She could have sworn that some where some how a long long time ago someone had called her something, but what exactly she had no idea. It was like the harder she tried to remember the more it slipped away from her. She was usually good at retaining that kind of information, but for some reason she couldn't when it came to the tidbit about the bird motif. "My dad is professor on Chinese cultural studies at the University of Beijing, he specialized in the Ming and Yuan Dynasties. It fascinated him how the Chinese managed to fight off the Mongols for so long only to eventually be ruled by them." She shrugged it off. "I grew up around it. Yi Long, on the other hand worked with my dad on some of his digs."<br/><br/><br/>When she realized he paid for her meal, she blushed. "Hey, you know that I could have paid for myself but thank you very much." It made her feel weird that he paid for her meal when they just met. She was never the type of girl to want a guy to pay for her unless they were on an official date and this was not an official date at all. Come to think of it her last date was Yi Long; that thought left a bad taste in her mouth but it wasn't Milo's fault. She pushed the thought aside and tried to focus.<br/><br/><br/>"Don't worry about Yi Long. He's just trying to make a name for himself independent of my family and it's not going well for him. last year on his self-funded dig there was a horrible accident where a group of twelve were trapping in an abandon mine shaft. It took rescuers almost a month to rescue them and by then there was only two survivors raving about a ghost from the past. They never made any sense and the case was shut. Yi Long took a lot of heat for it."<br/><br/><br/>She sighed. "I think this time around he's trying to not fuck up too bad, but things are looking grim for him. If this dig goes well we might discover something about the Ming dynasty that will change the world as we know it."