<div class="floatright">(http://www.sugarsugar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/asian-sugar-baby.jpg)</div><strong>Name;</strong>Serenity Sun Kwan<br/><strong>Location;</strong>The Line, Galley, currently heading to Shadow.<br/><strong>Tagged;</strong>Sue, Elfi, Miya, Isis, Braxton, Richard, Phil, and anyone else in the Galley.  Open.<br/><br/>Miya had apparently missed Serenity's comment regarding who had been rummaging through her medical supplies, but Serenity did notice with some satisfaction that Braxton had not.  She smirked ever so subtly to the man, knowing he knew that everyone at the table knew it too and that she had sent another of her well aimed and crafted barbs right where it hurt the most.<em>Consider that just the beginning.</em>Her eyes warned the man although his continued man-handling of Miya was his own way to get back at her she was sure.  Oh yes, this was going to be a long, cold war it seemed with barbs being thrown back and forth until one of them couldn't stand the tension any longer.  One of them would crack, and it wouldn't be her, she'd see to that personally if she had to.  Still, she was pleasantly distracted as the food arrived and Serenity focused her attention on the soup and took an experimental sip of her own, nodding her approval since it was as always, quite good given Sue's expertise behind the kitchen.  "As I suspected Sue, you have done wondrous things once again behind that kitchen of yours."  The Companion stated in that calm, no nonsense voice of hers that would most likely send a thrill through anyone receptive to it.  When she spoke, people tended to listen and listened well.  But she honestly meant what she said more times than not since she wasn't like most Companions in that everything was an act.  There was some actual 'flavor' to her but the Captain would never get a chance to get to it.  If she had known half of what was passing through Braxton's mind, Serenity would have quite happily argued the point until they were both blue in the face, although if that was before or after she kicked his ass out of the nearest airlock would have been up in the air for debate.<br/><br/>It wouldn't surprise Serenity a bit of bets were made about how long the two would last before another heated argument came up between the Captain and herself.  It had happened at least twice before that she knew about.  Who had won the money put down she had never found out and neither had she asked either, having been too angry to care either way.  She did calm though and nodded towards Lance at his kind greeting to her and Isi she figured since they were both simply passengers in a sense, although Serenity was more than that of course.  Phil was a good distraction as toasts were made and Serenity raised her own fluted champagne glass full of bubbly along with everyone else.  "Wèile jiànkāng, xǔduō màncháng de rìzi, zài hēisè hé yúkuài de yèwǎn. Wǒmen de chuán cóng bù rèzhōng, wǒmen de péngyǒu bǎochí mìqiè liánxì, wǒmen de dírén gèng qīnmì."  Let Braxton make of that what he wanted to make out of it, Serenity smirked again as she took a sip and couldn't suppress that little 'mmm' that Sue was looking for since he was spot on as always when it came to food.  The wine really did help to improve upon the peppers and the spices he had put into the mix.  She temporarily forgot her cold war she was waging against Braxton and smiled a little wider at Sue himself, again tempted to savor more than his fine cooking but again she held herself in check as she silently finished the rest of her meal.  As much as her instincts told her to leave then and there, but she stayed out of respect to those still at the table, even those she didn't particularly fancy.  Braxton she hated, Keri she liked, Lance she liked, Phil she enjoyed having around, Elfi she pitied, Sue she was wondering if she wasn't falling in love with his cooking if not more, and Miya she wasn't sure what to make of her.  Isi she hadn't figured out enough one way or the other what she thought of the girl, and suspicions aside, Serenity did find her intriguing.  Anything she might find out later she'd keep to herself regardless however, unless it was found Isi was a danger to the crew and herself of course.<br/><br/><em>To health, many long days, and pleasant nights in the black.  May our ship never keen, our friends stay close, and our enemies closer.</em>