It's a joke, you see. All the drinks, like the food, are free for the taking. Don't ask Shepard how much she's got stashed away in her room, or elsewhere.
"I'm more of a whisky sour kind of girl," she tells him, speaking at least half to the barkeep, and the woman turns away to retrieve the merchandise in question, "So, Hua Cheng, I gotta ask... do anything notable, recently?"
It's a little too casual, a clear signal of its importance, but Shepard doesn't seem to be bothered with meeting his eyes. She's unwrapping the deck with her teeth, one-handed, and spreading it out on the bartop, then producing a second deck from a pocket and carefully portioning out a selection of cards.
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It's a joke, you see. All the drinks, like the food, are free for the taking. Don't ask Shepard how much she's got stashed away in her room, or elsewhere.
"I'm more of a whisky sour kind of girl," she tells him, speaking at least half to the barkeep, and the woman turns away to retrieve the merchandise in question, "So, Hua Cheng, I gotta ask... do anything notable, recently?"
It's a little too casual, a clear signal of its importance, but Shepard doesn't seem to be bothered with meeting his eyes. She's unwrapping the deck with her teeth, one-handed, and spreading it out on the bartop, then producing a second deck from a pocket and carefully portioning out a selection of cards.
"It's relevant, I promise."