<div align="center"><strong><strong>-=Griffin Kingston, Captain – Peresephone, Eavesdown Docks, Landing Bay 30, inside The Gamble’s cargo hold.=-</strong></strong></div><br/>Sasha’s lingering gaze upon Lex, the admiration in her eyes for the registered companion was certainly not lost on Griff, who often surprised people with his keen observations. Griff was a master judge of character and was renowned for smelling a trap or a scam before the perpetrators were able to spring into action. The jealous emotions that stirred inside of him upon seeing Sasha’s appreciative study of Lex both angered and frightened him and as he moved to face her, the glare that tainted his features, for a moment, at least, was all too real. His ability to keep a cool head under pressure helped him wrangle in his emotions before he spoke, rationalizing that it wasn’t Sasha with whom he was feeling these intense emotions, but himself. Tamping down those powerful emotions and feelings, he took a slow breath before thinking back on the Mrs. Sylvester and allowing his playfulness to overwhelm his previous and unpleasant aura.<br/><br/>His jovial threat towards Sasha was sincere and he held no malcontent for his first officer, nor Lex, whom Griff perceived to be the object of her affections. Starting his way up the stairs leading back up to the upper deck, Griff smirked playfully at Sasha as she narrowed her eyes at him.<em> "Where'd I go gettin' all-fired jealous? She’s my First Officer, for cryin’ out loud! Quit acting like Ho Tze Duh Pi Gu! Yu Bun Duh feelings don’t mean nothing! Zao gao, Griff, be a Nuhn Tze Huhn!"</em>A lighthearted chuckle poured from his throat before he put his thoughts back to the business that needed to be done and setting the crew about their appointed tasks. Unable to stop himself, he cast one last glance back towards Sasha, watching her discreetly while slowly ascending the metal stairs. He was… shocked when, for the first time since he’d ever met Sasha, he saw her first, genuine smile as she watched Dani hug Mae and converse with her briefly. Transfixed on the alien, yet endearingly soft expression on her pretty yet otherwise professionally stoic face, he was motionless.<br/><br/><strong>"Where we're goin', Captain, am I alright dressed like this, or should I change into somethin' more comfortable and strap on a weapon less comfortable?"</strong><br/><br/>His attentions were drawn away from Sasha with McPherson’s question to him and he realized he had stopped, frozen in place as he watched her from his perch high up on the stairs.<em>” Yu Bun Duh feelings don’t mean nothing…”</em>he whispered to him self before addressing McPherson. “Gotta go scrounge up a cata… an engine part. I’m off to fetch it from Hayes now. Best come along expectin’ bigger trouble than a peashooter can handle. We ain’t exactly short on people wantin’ to cause us trouble.”<br/><br/>With that, he turned and took the remaining steps by twos. Turning left, he quickly marched through the galley and lounge on his way to get the catalyzer from Hayes, but his mind was still reeling, confused by they strange and troubling feelings he had just endured in the cargo hold. Griff was a tough man, a scrapper and a good leader who wasn’t afraid of a fight even when the odds were against him. But THIS… feelings and emotions… this was something he wasn’t prepared for and was ill-equipped to deal with.<br/><br/>Ducking into the small corridor that was the locker storage room, he called out to Hayes before he reached the engine room. “Hayes! Where’s that cata-ma-thingy? I’m headed… OOF!” Griff caught the flying piece of machinery in his gut, just catching sight of it as it hurled toward him from somewhere off to his right. “Uuuuhhhh…” he coughed, hunched over in a pain and slightly winded from the impact. “Thanks. That’ll be all…” Turning sharply on his heel, he moved hastily from the engine room, the catalyzer clutched in his hands as he called back to her now safely in the galley. “Don’t forget to have our fuel and water reserves topped off right away, Hayes!” Breaking into a light jog, lest Hayes come out into the locker room and hurl a spanner at him, Griff reached the stairs and quickly scurried down them, his eyes instantly searching out Sasha before his mind even registered the fact.<br/><br/><hr/>Ho Tze Duh Pi Gu = Monkey's ass<br/>Nuhn Tze Huhn  = Real man<br/>Yu Bun Duh = Stupid<br/>Zao gao  = Damn it<br/>