Ling, your 'helpful' additions seem to assuage whatever suspicions the security detail may have had, and instead of pressing closer they stay where they are.  This allows the two of you to catch up with your irrepressible associate.  It does nothing about the concerned and/or lustful glances that come your way every now and again, but then that was probably going to happen in any case.<br/><br/>Mai, you have no doubt that Ling just saved your bacon.  About the jade-green and seemingly oblivious Urvasi, there's probably nothing that can be done, particularly not when she acts very much like a soldier freshly sent on leave with six months' back pay in her coin purse and a raging thirst for more than water.<br/><br/>To your mutual relief, the lone member of the waitstaff is old enough to be your grandmother and has a personality to give any badger a run for its money: abrupt and brusque would be the polite way of putting it.  Thus your companion ends up taking a seat, pouting like a small child, and consoling herself with a small bowl of noodle soup.<br/><br/><strong>"What a drag!  No booze and no tail!  And we still gotta go talk to the old bald boring people at the Temple!  Honorable Father said there'd be years like this."</strong>She heaves a sigh.<strong>"Bet there's no bath-house around here, either.  Maaaaaaaan..."</strong>She turns those big green eyes on both of you, attempting to sway you with her cuteness.<strong>"Can we at least hurry up so I can get it over with and find a couple of willing young beauties who're into sisterly understanding?"</strong>