Around Every Corner

[Liara]

“Making promises already Cross? This is only the first date.” Selene teased as she sipped her wine. “But I promise run and hide wont be my default.”

[Clint Cross]

Clint smiled at that. "Good. It's a pain in the ass having to rebuild all the time. Although it'll still happen sometimes..." he rolled his eyes. "But hey... if you run and hide, let me join you."

[Liara]

"That might actually be fun." Selene grinned and looked at her plate. "Okay so tell me what all of this is. I recognize the panang curry, I think that's pad Thai, and these little guys are spring rolls. What's this?"

[Clint Cross]

"Kang Curry, it's like beef and potatoes and peppers and curry." Clint said as he eyed it. "I think. The menu's all in Thai-lish. Like a weird Thai and English hybrid." he took a bite and nodded his head. "Oh yeah, they spiced this up... "

[Liara]

Selene eyed him as she scooped up a bit of the kang curry and took a bite. The spice hit her as she swallowed making her cough.

“It’s not bad.” She said as her cough subsided, she reached for her wine glass. “You weren’t kidding about it being spicy.”

[Clint Cross]

"Takes a couple bites to get used to it." Clint said with a chuckle as he took a bite and cocked his head. "Oh yeah... at least a couple. Damn, that place was not kidding. I like it." he smiled as he saw her cheeks get flushed. "If it IS too hot..." he pulled out a bottle. "Thai cream coffee... just in case. I need to send some of this to JT, he's a lightweight when it comes to this stuff. It'll be hilarious."

[Liara]

"No I'm okay I just wasn't prepared." Selene said as she took a sip a few sips of her wine. "Enhanced sense of taste. If you're not expecting it kind of knocks you on your ass. I was expecting spicy not the fiery pits of hell."

[Clint Cross]

"Well most of us need it like that to even taste the spicy... although Doc Tess isn't an augment, but she could match any of us pepper for pepper. Selene's dad makes a killer curry vinadaloo. I keep forgetting he grew up in India, he's like 'very model of a modern British gentlemen'" he said in a fake British accent. "I watched Slumdog Millionaire, late 20th Century India was a pit. Kinda get why he went all despotic shadow leader. So since you didn't really do the Russia thing... where did you spend some of your assignments?"

[Liara]

“All over. Earth, Mars, and other places. Pretty much anywhere there was a target.” Selene replied taking a bite of her food. “This is good.”

[Clint Cross]

"Told ya. I was assigned near Bangkok for about three months, trying to find a group of four men in a city of about oh... 4 million. Best part of that assignment was the food. That and there was a little town, literally called Phuket and Phuk-yu Too. Someone's idea of a Troll... found him in Phuk-yu-Too. That nearly got me court martialled. 'Cross where are you?' 'Phuk-Yu Too.' 'WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? Say that again I double dare you motherfucker.'.. Director Rogers calmed down when I actually sent him a photo of the sign. Worst prostitutes I ever saw there. But they lead us to our targets. They clearly had zero taste. Other than the food, that was epic. Even if I cringed when I saw where and how they prepared it, this place is night and day cleaner. There wasn't some 70 year old grandma squatting on the floor in front of a giant mixing bowl preparing noodles over a modified phaser turned cooking surface."