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“Well?” she said. “How is it?”
“Delicious!”
“Bartender,” the girl said. “Another mojito, please.”
The bartender grinned as he set to making another cocktail. He hesitated, inexperienced with shaking the container and spinning the bottle around, but finally, with his tongue poking out and focusing every fiber of his being on pouring the drink into the glass, he was done.
I lifted it, about to drink when the girl raised a hand.
“Wait,” she said. “You need this.”
She drew a tiny umbrella from her bag and placed it in the glass.
I sipped it and smiled.
“Incredible,” I said. “Where did you get those funky-looking little umbrellas?”
“I made them,” she said.
“They’re very cool,” I said. I meant it. Titan food was delicious and very nutritious but when it came to appearance… well, sometimes it was easy to mistake a schlezmong’s droppings for our meals.
Zes had done it many times over the years.
“I order the same drink every time I go to a bar,” the girl said. “They don’t have the same alcohol here as back home but they have similar stuff. I tell the bartender the recipe and they knock it up pretty quick.” She told me the recipe with Titan ingredients. “They never have the little umbrellas though, so I had to make my own. It’s a little taste of home, even if it is a little different from what I remember.”
“I’d like to taste a real mojito sometime,” I said.
“It’s a long way just for a drink. But you know what?” She reached for her bag and came out with half a dozen tiny umbrellas. “Here, take some. For when you make your mojito.”
I waved her away.
“No. Please,” I said. “I don’t want to take your pleasure from you.”
“Believe me, you won’t. I reuse them anyway. I don’t think I’ve used more than two since I’ve been here.”
I took them from her.
“Thanks,” I said. “I’ll… think of you while I’m drinking it.”
Why did everything I say sound so seedy? Had I always been so nervous around women?
“How did you end up here?” I said.
“The same way any human ends up in outer space. I was abducted.”
Hot anger rose like heat in my chest.
“I’m sorry,” I said. “It happens everywhere these days. To my species too.”
“It sucks.”
“I can imagine.”
“But you get used to it. And you get to meet some pretty interesting people.”
A Titan stagehand came running over to the girl.
“You’re due on stage in five minutes,” she said.
