<div class="floatleft">(http://imageshack.com/a/img844/7043/lb3w.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Thalia Linnea,</span><em>Medic</em><br/>2519, present day<br/>Eavesdown Docks, Persephone<br/>Tagging - Shey, Aaron, Sidney, Samson, Santiago & Babs<br/>Location - The Last Stand Saloon<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Thalia glanced back and forth between Aaron and Santiago, responding with some discomfort to their disagreement. She also got the sense that Aaron wasn't telling the full story, but it had already been said and she chose not to re-assert the fact. The placid smile had never shifted from her face, but it was around this time that she noticed the drunken customer approaching them.<br/><br/>She and the others were standing in a group away from others in the saloon, so you tended to notice details like that. She didn't know what he was up to or if he was armed, and her eyes widened when he reached for Shey. As Santiago responded with some poetic justice of assgrabbery, Thalia reached for Shey to swirl her out of the way. (OOC: Whether this succeeded is up to you, Shey). She wondered who this man was that he would dare to reach out and touch a Registered Companion without permission (which was ironically what she'd just done), but he either didn't realise or he was that drunk that he didn't know better. Probably a combination of both.<br/><br/>When the man was gone, Thalia exchanged a smile with Santiago, then left Shey and the First Mate to their introductions. As they spoke, her attention returned to Aaron and what they'd been talking about prior to the arrival of the drunken man now flat on his face (and off it). It was clear Aaron wasn't telling the full story but that wasn't so strange a thing. The 'verse wasn't what it used to be.. or in fact hadn't been in a long time and sometimes it was better not to rain unnecessaries on folks that like as not would get you into trouble. It had only been a few weeks prior to this that Thalia had finally let slip to Samson and Santiago that she'd trained in Companioning. She didn't want them to get the wrong idea about her, especially when she'd gone to the trouble of learning medicine on Ariel and Osiris.<br/><br/>Thalia took the Captain's request that Santiago buy the ladies a drink as an order. It seemed he wanted to talk to Aaron alone, so with a glance at Shey and then Santiago (who she thought might be more inclined to stay), she drifted over nearer the bar where the 'tender had lines of bottles. Some were the same you'd see on the core, others not. Some of the bottles looked like they'd spent months in a ship's cargo hold to get here. She saw Babs approach and engage the Captain in conversation as well. She didn't know what to make of the young woman, just yet. Babs could've been any gender but she thought woman because of the cheekbones and the way she was built. It was also an instinctive thing. (OOC: I figure that Thalia would likely notice Babs' gender, because of her Companion training and medical expertise).<br/>