"Umm. New people usually like salmon and tuna, if you wanna try sushi. There's a bunch of other stuff on the menu that isn't sushi. Like teriyaki chicken." She pointed out a few more meals, mentally running down her normal list of sushi. When she was really hungry, she just stopped by the ocean market and bought a whole fish, but she was feeling pretty sedate today.
"Uuuuhh. Tuna sounds good." She said. She wasn't excatly sure how it was going to taste but she was all for it.
"Cool. You should probably order a roll so you get a full meal. Sushi isn't exactly filling." Lyra wondered who would be paying for dinner. When she went out with guys, they usually covered the bill. When she dated girls, it was usually some random eenie-meenie-miny-mo type situation. But she didn't want to order a bunch of stuff and have Nykidia cover a huge bill.
"Oh okay then." Nykidia said. She barley knew what she was about to eat. She was just trusting Lyra's judgment. "I hope it's good." She thought.
"Cool!" Lyra beckoned over a waiter and ordered her food, holding back a bit so she didn't have her meal end up crazy expensive. It was still a pretty large amount of food, but she had to eat.
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(Oh! Sorry. Happy Thanksgiving BTW!
(No problem, we all forget sometimes. Happy Thanksgiving.)
Nykidia stared at everything. It all looked so good but she didn't want to eat first because she didn't want to be rude.
Lyra smiled at her over a plate of salmon eggs and fatty tuna, exposing her unusually sharp teeth. She picked up a piece with her chopsticks before wondering why Nykidia wasn't eating. "What's wrong? Does everything look good?"
Nykidia snapped out of her gaze. "Oh Yeah fine." She said as she grabbed her dish seeing that now Lyra had started eating.
"Next time, we can try a restaurant you like." Lyra ate a few other pieces of tuna before she moved onto her eel and octopus. She had seven or eight different kinds of fish- not including the three different varieties of fish eggs. It was a good sampling of the best food the ocean had to show, she knew. She'd lived there for years. "What kind of restaurants do you like?"
"I don't eat out often. I usually make my own food. I'm pretty good at cooking." She said as she took a bite of sushi. "OMG this is amazing. Why have I never had this before?" Nykidia thought.
Lyra helped herself to most of her red snapper, considering the answer. "Maybe we can go over to your house then. If that's not too forward or anything." She hadn't dated a grounder in ages, and they seemed to have some very different ideas about things than the merfolk. It was important to make sure she wasn't crossing any boundaries or anything.
"I don't really have a house. I live at the Casino." She said as she started to eat more of a variety. "Damn this is so good." Nykidia thought.
"Oh, guess we've already been over to your place. Maybe you can come to my apartment and cook me something. Or is that rude of me to say? I haven't dated many of you and I don't wanna break any unspoken rules or anything." Lyra dug into her food when she was done, waiting for an answer.
Nykidia laughed. "There are no unspoken rules from me. You could murder someone in front of my and I couldn't care less." Nykidia explained. "Though I will try to keep as much dealing with the Casino and Mob as far away from you as possible." She said reassuringly
Lyra smiled and waved away Nykidia's reassurance. She was a siren. She knew how to take care of herself. Besides, nobody hurt the staff at Alina's anyways. Too much fear that whatever organization they worked for might get banned. "Don't worry about it. As long as you don't try to use me for information, we'll be fine."
"I can figure out different ways to get it." Nykidia said waving her hand dismissively.
"Then we're all good!" Lyra smiled winningly at Nykidia and then dug into her sushi with renewed gusto now that she knew where they stood.
Nykidia watched as Lyra devoured her food. Nykidia finished up and waited for Lyra. She looked out the window. It was getting dark. "Maybe I'll give her a birds eye view of the city before we go there." She thought.
Lyra finished a few minutes later, tossing some cash down onto the table to cover the meal and yanking Nykidia outside. It was dark outside, the edges of the sky a dark purple that bled into the larger dome of midnight blue. A beautiful night. "Can you tell me where we're going now?"
"Damn it!" Nykidia thought as she was dragged out of the restaurant. "I wanted to pay for that." Nykidia looked at how excited Lyra was. "Not yet." Nykidia said. "I want to give you a birds eye view of the city first." Nykidia said with a grin spreading across her face.
Lyra pouted but when Nykidia said they'd get to fly again she nearly squealed with glee. "Totally! Pick me up! Pick me up!" She pressed herself into her girlfriend's arms, waiting to get lifted again.
Nykidia smiled as she picked her up in a bridal position and jumped up on to the closest building. she leap from building to building. As she kept hopping the building started to get taller and look more modern.