<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;">"Italian wine is by far the best," she said, her eyes glancing up to look at him.  Then, her face turned and she inspected the plates of food that he had brought.  "This all looks very, very delicious," she said, grinning at him.  "These are some my favorite things, all in one meal."  While Cerise didn't know what it was that Kavash wanted to get out of spending time with her, she had to admit that he did know his way around the fine mastery of courting a woman.  But, perhaps, it was because he was not originally from her home planet, and therefore had more manners, decency and common sense than the men she was used to being around.<br/><br/>She took her glass from him when he poured the wine into it, thanking him as she did so.  "Yes," she said, looking at him, her blush creeping back into her cheeks as she felt his gaze on her.  Cerise lifted the glass to her lips, and took a sip, all the while keeping her eyes locked on his over the rim of the glass.  Swallowing the liquid, she smiled, feeling the gentle tingle of it going down her throat.  "It's very good," she said.  "I don't think I can think of a single thing about this outing so far that isn't good," she told him, letting her eyes linger briefly on his before she looked away, setting the glass down.<br/><br/>"How did you like your time on Earth?" she asked, curious to hear what he thought of her home planet.  "I know it must seem pretty boring and mundane when you've been to places like this," she told him, gesturing with her arms to their surroundings.  She was not trying to put down her home, just merely acknowledging that there were nicer, more mystifying places throughout the solar system.  She had seem some of them with her own eyes.  Almost absently, she reached over, unable to stop herself, and stroked across the markings on his face.  <br/><br/>Kavash was a beautiful man.  Cerise would not deny that, even though she was not so keen to admit it out loud to him either.  She found him fascinating in more ways than one.</span>