Carrying both their drinks, her pet monkey, and his apple to a nearby table, SuLan perched where she could keep an interested eye on the woman with the eye-patch.  After a couple of moments, the monkey squeaked at her and jerked a thumb at Katie, almost as if he was asking the red-head a question.  This resulted in a soft, almost whispered conversation in Mandarin, during which the slight young woman seemed to be blushing...but before she took any other action, Jenny was back from the stable.