The last hour had been spent rather tediously by Melina. After retrieving a few choice items from Shadow's Bloom, she'd returned to her room to find it still occupied only by her; the way she liked it. She'd searched in vain for something a little more formal than her skin-tight suit to where, but realised only after searching through her footlocker that she didn't own one. The only dresses she'd ever owned had been left on Venus when she left, and after that, living as first a street urchin and then a Mercenary, there had been no time to buy clothes for leisure purposes. And so after re-locking her footlocker, taking a shower, drying off completely and getting redressed, almost an hour had been taken up. The rest of that hour was used by her as she attempted to find the mess hall the banquet was being held in.<br/><br/>And so now here Melina was, leaning against a wall in the corner of the room, watching the chattering groups of people and the dancing couples. A slight hunger gnawed at her stomach, but she the swarm of people around the food tables dashed any hopes of her getting any food from there soon, and hard as she tried, Melina could not get the eyes of that man as he stared drectly in to her soul out of her head. That gaze disturbed her more than she was willing to admit. Then she saw him. The same man, stalking over to a tray of pecan pies, stealing one and slipping away. A quiet, almost inaudible laugh left Melina's mouth before she even registered that there was food there for the taking. And so only instants after the man had slipped away, Melina kicked away from the wall and made her way over to the pecan pies, discreetly sliding one in to her hand as she went.<br/><br/>Once Melina had made her way over to the other side of the wall, she leaned against it as she had on the opposite side of the room, a smile on her face as she begins to eat away at it, quelling the occasional rumbles of hunger her stomach had been emitting, the whole time in plain view of that man admiring her ship previously; keeping a constant eye on him.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>