Sunbucks Cafe

[NebulaCloud]

Carina cocked her one eyebrow up again, still smirking. "A bit late to ask, ain't it?" she replied jokingly, and then shrugged. "Doesn't bother me. Used to work at a steel mill, and then as a stooge on a prison transport. You find a way to offend me, you deserve a medal."

She leaned back in her seat and ate the last bite of her crescent roll, idly surveying the crowd in the cafe. Glancing down at her right shoulder, she brushed a speck of lint from her pressed uniform, and wondered if he would act as surprised as everyone else who found out that she, a smallish framed young woman, would or could work in such an environment.

"Houston is Houston," she continued as she finished sweeping off her shoulder, looking back up at him. "Can't say I've seen the whole planet, but the city of Montgomery is hot, dirty, and overcrowded. And the locals ain't all too cuddly either; not sure if you already knew it, but pretty much the whole of Texas is one big prison-slash-war zone. Not many people live there by choice."