After spending most of the day in the cockpit, Kai was relieved to finally be elsewhere. His stomach had been rumbling for a while now and after sitting down at the table, accidentally bumping the arm of one of the suits next to him, he loaded up his plate with as much as he could without going overboard. He was hungry but he still made sure to leave enough for everyone else. He was sure Higgins would embarrass the captain enough without him eating the passengers dinner too.

He took a massive bite out of a bread roll and glanced at the suit sitting next to him for a second. He found himself wondering why such fine gents would be out here in the ass end of space, hitching a ride on a boat like the Herald. Something about these guys made him uneasy. He tried not to think about it though. Some of the crew were probably shadier than these guys anyway. Casting a quick glance at the rest of the passengers, he continues shovelling food in his mouth. Damn, this wasn't bad. Shen had done well. He would have thanked him if he had room left in his mouth to wrap his tongue around words.

His eyes stopped on Higgins as he entered. The engineer was absolutely filthy. More so than usual. He was sure the captain would like him to be at least clean for dinner, 'specially when they had passengers aboard, but Higgins looked pretty frazzled too. Kai wondered what he had been tinkering with that had zapped him but that wasn't his primary concern. [i]"Yeh su"[/i] he complained "I hope you plan on washing before you touch the food."