Mal swallowed the last drop of his drink and placed it on the bar.

“Jen said he had blonde hair and tattoo on his face.” He said as he turns around looking at Zoë, as usually she was casing the place.

She wasn’t much for drinking, clouded the mind. Zoë scanned the bar looking for their engineer to be.

“Yep, Jen said this guy was a real jen duh sh tyen tsai when it comes to enginenie stuff.”

Mal ordered another drink.

“Sir, if this guy is such a jen duh sh tyen tsai as Jen said then why did she throw him off her boat?”

“Don’t know, all Jen said is that they had difference of opinions.”

“Difference of opinions, Shiny.”

Zoë turned back facing the bar. They had been waiting for this genius for an hour. So, she decided to order herself a shot, anything to take her mind of her captain’s decent into lunacy. Mal scanned the bar once more. He looks at a table of four young men, clearly drunk. He sees them whisper to another and pointing to Zoë. Mal wonder which one of them was actually bold enough to actually come over. Mal had his sights on the big one.

“Go in Les, go talk to her!” said the smallest and clearly the drunkest.

The big one stood up quite purposefully, he straightens his clothes and walk over. “Be gentle Zoë, he’s nyen ching dud.” Mal whispered, as he sipped his drink.

The young men at the table were cheering them on. Les looked back at his friends pointing at Zoë’s bottom. His friends gave him the thumbs up in approval. Les look at Mal as to ask if Zoë was with him. Mal nodded no. He was dying of laughter in the inside. Mal saw the young man hand cock back into the air,

“Oh no, don’t do boy, for the love of tyen sho-doh don’t do it!” Mal said to himself.

Les swatted Zoë on her butt.

“Hey ba …”

Before the boy could finish his statement Zoë had him on the floor with her boot on his chest and gun pointed at his face.

Mal stood there laughing. Looking down at the boy.

“Now, son is that anyway to treat a lady? I think you should apologize to her?”

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