Private Finished The Underground Bar Scene

"Yeah. Let's have fun with it," she grinned.

Zoey asked for something called 'The First Four Seals,' which was a series of four shots. Again, delightfully kitschy, and a big discount. She didn't need to look at the menu to know about it. She kicked the first two back right after she got them - with the rest, she'd take her time.

"It's definitely been fun so far. Dancing and drinks with a brilliant woman I just met." Zoey kept the footsies going, brushing one of her feet against one of Caissa's.

"You're a student at the school here, right? I bet you're ruining the curve over there, if they do that."

Zoey needed to think of a good way to answer that, and she tried to hide this by taking a long sip of her beer. It would be too obvious if she said she was into demonology. Should she even answer? Could she get away with telling the lie she'd made up, about Zoey's job?

She was taking a bit too long with this sip, so she just grinned and put the glass down. "Fine," she said, smiling and lowering her voice a little. "You got me. I'm a student. And I'm going for a job as either a scout or a lawyer when I'm done. A lot of the same stuff comes in handy, like sociology, shadow politics, magical histories, that sort of thing."

And it felt kind of good to be honest there, actually. But she also wanted to tell the lie, because she was proud of it. "If anyone else asks, though, I work as a prostitute in my true form, and I'm trying to distance that from the rest of my life."

Zoey laughed, surprised and delighted by how forward Caissa was being.

"Now, how did you figure out I was so good at that, super-genius?"

The flirting would get more aggressive, and Zoey would pick up the pace with her alcohol. At some point, Zoey managed to explain that there are kinds of lawyers who don't need to go to trial, so if Caissa really wanted to go to law school, she wouldn't need to worry about that getting-summoned-away stuff.

On her last shot, just before heading home with her, she also promised Caissa that she could borrow her cane. Just in case they both had trouble walking in the morning.