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[freebitchbaby]

Who| Gaila and open
What| Making herself available
Where| Tribute tower lounge, out and about in the Capitol and in several bars
When| Today!

It wasn't unusual for the red-headed alien to be found swanning about. Ever since leaving the arena she'd been doing everything that she could to schmooze potential sponsors. Sponsors, which meant Captiol citizens, meant having the best equipment and seeing that she was already weaker than her human counterparts she needed that help.

That being said, as she sat in the lounge sipping a very large glass of overly carbonated soda, her feet were seriously beginning to ache from all this promenading about on the arm of some rich citizen. Back to being a status symbol again. At least she was better equipped to deal with it than some of the tributes.

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[tis_allgood]

He blushed a little at being caught, but he was smiling all the same. It didn't take much to get him to come over and talk to her. But that didn't mean he had to be nice about it.

"Not very ladylike behavior."

[freebitchbaby]

"I've been called a lotta things in my life, sweetie, but ladylike had never been one of them." Quite the opposite. She'd once made a living out of doing things that no respectable lady would and enjoyed it quite vociferously. "And I wasn't the one standing about like a phaser half-shot." She challenged with a cheeky smile.

[tis_allgood]

"I don't meet a lot of ladies quite your... shade. And I suppose I should be glad to hear you're not that sort of lady."

He has more fun with the women who aren't ladylike, even if he knows he shouldn't.

[freebitchbaby]

"Woman, sweetie." She corrected. "I'm not a lady, I'm a woman. Never had a title and sure as hell wouldn't want one." And there was no point in pretending to be something that she wasn't. Gaila took a sip of her soda and gestured for him to sit down.

"And you wont've. Not a lot of us manage to leave the planet."

[tis_allgood]

"Not many men of my world leave the planet either, and yet here I am, the only Gunslinger in all The Capitol."

He took a seat and relaxed. He didn't want to argue with her about titles, it was a fight he was destined to lose.

"What are you drinking? And how might I get some?"

[freebitchbaby]

"Well, look at us, a pair of anomalies then." Gaila commented flippantly.

"Soda." She replied. "It's carbonated water that tastes good." And it had most of the sugars that she needed to get her mildly tipsy without poisoning her like certain alcohols could. "Tell one of the Avoxes you want one. They'll bring it over." She gestures at one of the silent servants to point them out to him.

[tis_allgood]

"I try not to talk to those poor souls. I feel bad enough knowing they are forced into servitude here."

That broke the mood some. He watched the bubbles float to the top of Gaila's drink. Which gave him an idea on how to turn things around.

"Mayhap I can have a taste of yours..."

[freebitchbaby]

Gaila bit her tongue. She wanted to comment that some slaves bettered themselves and ended up equals but she knew that wouldn't do any good for the conversation.

"Help yourself, sweetie." She passed the glass over without a second thought. Sharing things was common on Orion.

[tis_allgood]

He brightened a little at being called 'sweetie', he always loved a good nickname. He took a sip and made a face, first in pain and then surprise.

"Gan! 'Tis sweeter than I could have expected. Do you drink this all the time?"

[freebitchbaby]

Gaila giggled. Geeze, did they not have soda where he came from?

"Yeah, I can't drink much booze, too much of it is poisonous to my species. Sugar on the other hand can get me nice'nd buzzed without killing me off." She replied with a grin. "How've you never had soda before?"

[tis_allgood]

"Nothing where I come from has such sweetness, this is luxury at its finest."

He laughed at the idea that she couldn't drink.

"I suppose we're of opposite inclinations then, where I come from alcohol is far easier to find than sweets."

[freebitchbaby]

Gaila cocked her head curiously at him.

"Aw, C'mon, you're pulling my leg, right?" She asked. "What kinda place doesn't have sweet things?"

[tis_allgood]

"My world has moved on. This place is full of luxuries I had never seen before, nor will see again. We have sweets, but they are a treat meant to be shared on special occasions only."

He was a little sad talking about it, he knew how uncomfortable it made people to know how much he liked it in the Capitol.

[freebitchbaby]

Gaila smiled at him. "Must be nice then. This is the kind of stuff I was used to back home. It's kinda nice to be treated like I was back there." She commented. He wasn't the only one who could see some of the few benefits of the Capitol.

[tis_allgood]

That was a nice change of pace. Not everything had to be kidnapping and forced death games.

"You must have lived in the lap of luxury, then. I cannot say I'm unimpressed."

He reached out to steal another sip of her soda.

[freebitchbaby]

"I was a slavegirl. A possession. I sat in the lap of luxury more often than not." Gaila replied with a dark laugh, pushing the glass toward him without a second thought. She was far better with sharing now then she was back when she was a slave.

[tis_allgood]

"I am not so surprised, I would pay a great deal for a lady as lovely as thee."

He meant that as well as one can possibly mean a phrase like that. He was trying for a compliment.

[freebitchbaby]

"Aw, that's cute sweetie." Gaila smiled at him beatifically. "But you're a lil' too young for me now. And I bought my freedom a year ago." She was officially Gaila Freewoman now, but she hated to use that as a last name and given that she hadn't thought of one yet, she was happy to stick with just Gaila.

[tis_allgood]

"How old do I look to thee?"

He didn't like the idea of being babyfaced. He even made a sad puppy face at the implication. And here he thought he might have a chance with this beautiful lady.

[freebitchbaby]

"I dunno." Gaila leaned in, peering at his face closely. "If I had to guess I'd say seventeen in human years?" She offered as a suggestion. She never had been good with guessing human's ages.

[tis_allgood]

"Seventeen and still too young! How long do your kind live? I would be near married at that where I'm from."

Not to mention that he was barely 16, but that wasn't not the point here. He didn't like the implication that he was too young.

[freebitchbaby]

"Mine? 'Til we're 'bout ninety." Then they withered and returned to the Mother Goddess in the dirt. "But I'm used to living by human rules for a coupla years."

"And we don't marry either, not unless we're a clan matriarch."