<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/d/db/Andoran_Female_portrait_150x200.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Chief Petty Officer Par (http://elliquiy.com/wiki/KalinaPar_zh%27Yor)<br/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Table near the view screens, with Maira<br/><br/><strong>Time:</strong>Mid Morning<br/><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Ensign Maira Snowpaw, open<br/><br/><hr/><br/>The Andorian watched as Maira reached hesitantly towards the deep fried beetles, stopped, and went for a tuber root instead. She chuckled, took a beetle, cracked the shell off, and delicately removed the soft blue flesh from inside. "Here. There is a food on your world i have tried, Kay-june Shrimp? It is a not dissimilar texture. I would hesitate to compare the taste, but I understand that your shrimp can be prepared in a number of ways, Kay-june being but one? I believe the preparation of the shrimp and the preparation of the shaysha beetle are reasonably similar!"<br/><br/>Par listened sympathetically to the human talking about her past. "It seems to me, then that this serpent spirit is the one you should be most grateful to, as he kept you safe. He does not, perhaps, wish you harm, so much as wishing to continue to keep you safe. Not diminishing you but keeping you from harms way? I can see how he would want to do that." She smiled and reached a pale blue hand to touch the pale brown one. "But you have learned when to heed his advice and when to disregard it. That makes you strong, that makes you a warrior! A true warrior knows what fights to fight and what fights to back away from. A true warrior knows that if you start a fight you cannot win, it had better be for a good reason! If your reason to fight is not good, then only fight if you know you can win. Or at least, draw." She smiled softly. "Your father sounds like a dishonourable man. I am grateful that my fathers were both honourable and my mothers also. Two of them have also gone to<acronym title="The Andorian word for Sha Ka Ree"><em>{unpronounceable}</em></acronym>, but they died with honour".<br/><br/>The blue-skinned engineer paused and took another mouthful of the bat's flesh. "Thish..." she said around the mouthful, then swallowed and went on "Tastes a lot like .... Darn it, what is that Earth meat called.... It's a bird, has a long tail, it is usually hung for several days to give it a stronger flavour before it is cooked.... Pleasant? Peasant? Something like that. Red bat tastes something like that. Here..." She tore a strip off the still warm carcase and offered it to her companion. "You really should eat something, you know". The Andorian grinned wickedly. "Have you ever eaten Klingon food?"<br/><br/>After a pause in which she ate more and washed it down with the glow ale - which didn't actually glow, but was made from a plant called a glow - Par asked, "Do the spirits help you steer the ship?"