Udo and several other members of the LWB returned to the Biergarten after a sucessful fight against a pack of Bounty hunters.
"Haha! We won! Und I am not exploded! This is great!" Udo cheerfully announced.
Udo set a small model Odin onto a shelf with the other collection of model ships. Before turning to ol' Wenzel.
"A round of biers for mein guten friends! Frau Lorette, Umm... whoever was in that Behemoth! That bunch of Landwirt pilots who shot at us after we shot cruise disruptors off..."
"Heh, you know it!" One of the other pilots stated proudly.
"...Und Frau Eva und Herr Steinlaufer for not being there!" Udo finished.
"*sigh* A'ight, but I know how you get when you drink anything alchaholic..." Wenzel replied, before getting several bottles of cold, refreshing Stuttgart Lauger and dispensing them to the Pilots.
"I purpose a toast! To Guten friends and our victory over die forces of evil that Synth Foods sent after us!" Udo raised his bottle with the other patrons before taking a large gulp of beer...
Roger Thompson, a Junker from Kreuzberg, strolled into the Biergarten to help celebrate. He wasn't entirely sure what he was celebrating, but he never did understand Rheinlanders much anyway. He did like the LWB (especially after they introduced him to some of the non-synth farmers on Stuttgart) and so was happy to join in.
By this time, several others had joined in. Eva Morgenrot sat at the half-constructed bar and raised a toast to Udo.
"Here's to Udo and everyone for shooting down those Bounty Hunters while I was sleeping, after not being able to because of ghosts!" Eva said, raising a glass.
"Here here!" Roger said, getting a glass from Wenzel and raising it in Udo's direction. Unfortunately, he seemed to be sleeping on the bar, so he instead toasted the recruitment poster Herr Richter had put up.
Yue Fei entered the place, dressed in a tight black uniform decorated with red trims. Her rank, a single red star decorated each of her shoulder flaps.
She rubbed her eye, somewhat embarrassed alone in this place where she knew no one.
"Uh... do we serve breakfast around? I guess I should order two for myself and a friend of mine..."
Yue smiled gently at Udo,
"Egg and bacon please. That' my donation for the LWB cause for all your people' hospitabiliy" she said, blushing slightly at the sight of the man.
When no one was looking, she whispered in his ear,
"No one knows about it as you promised, yes?... I'd hate to explain this to anyone... especially if it gets in the ears of my comrades!"
Udo looks around to make sure nobody is in earshot.
"Umm... Ja, we keep it secret. So... there is no chance herr Steinlaufer will slap me... oki?"
Udo looked around again, suspiciously.
Before too long however, an aging service robot brought the pair's breakfast to them, and Udo was all to happy to dig into his stack of delecious pancakes.
"Alright!"
She thanked the droid, paid her due and bought the two meal back to the room she shared with Katya. She still didn't felt comfortable with Udo, especially after what happened yesterday - what with the voice in their head telling them they should meet each other and... telling Udo she loved him?
Non sense!
She wasn't that ....
Yue blushed slightly as she walked back toward her room at a slightly faster rate.
Later in the day, Eva walked down to the Biergarten and took a seat at one of the tables set up. Looking around, she found Wenzel to be missing from the area. Instead, she saw a man she knew as Karl sitting near the bar.
"Where's Wenzel?" she asked.
"I'm covering for him," Karl said. "He needed a break, something about Udo talking about wilde, ghosts, and the RFP giving him a huge headache.
"Who was that other person he was with earlier?" She asked, rubbing her chin thoughtfully.
Lorette literally danced into the bar, ecstatic over her previous kill in New Berlin.
"You look pleased," Wenzel noted, "Cause for celebration?"
"Ja, my first kill!" she gasped out, "Drinks all round, on me!"
She turned to the rest of the pilots who merely stood there, grinning. Most of them had felt the same after their first kills, it was only after one started to count the cost that the reality of the struggle would finally hit home.
But Lorette was young, innocent of these grim details, she deserved her happiness, and most of them would join in the celebrations.