Dominique smiled a little. ”The food does smell very good.” She allowed, picking up the plate she’d stolen food from just before. ”May I?” She asked.

”Please.” Elisa replied easily, watching her guest take up her plate of food and start to walk towards the table. She couldn’t help but smile a little too, to watch her. She was a very attractive woman, she’d have to be thick in the head not to notice, especially with her dressed like that. More than that though, she had to admit, there was just something, some sort of… spark… that was just there for her. It was something she hadn’t felt in… it had been almost a year and a half now, hadn’t it? Since then, she’d gone out a few times, dated that nurse, Rebecca, for a few weeks, but her heart just hadn’t been in it. She and Rebecca were still on good terms, they talked sometimes even, it was just… She shook her head and followed after Dominique with her own plate of food. The drinks and things were already over on the table waiting for them.

They sat down too and looked at one another. ”You know, I do have some clothes you could borrow.” Elisa smiled softly to the other woman.

”Oh… is the way I’m dressed… bothering you?” Dominique asked, a sort of bemused curiosity in her voice.

”Not at all. I just thought I should offer.” Elisa explained, taking a bite of her food and swallowing. ”So… how about this: A question for a question?” She offered, realizing suddenly she actually was very curious to know more about the woman across from her, as well as what the implications of her very existence might be.

Dominique considered that for a moment while she chewed a bite of food. ”That sounds… equitable.” She agreed. ”You can have the first one, if you like?” She offered, curious as to what that question would be. A question asked could be as telling as a question answered, after all.

”Okay… I guess, where are you from?” She asked.

”…Scotland.” Dominique answered. That certainly wasn’t a question she’d expected. ”Wyvern Hill… in present day Lochaber Ward.” She supposed that was all the answer she truly owed, but, looking into Elisa’s expectant eyes, she felt compelled to expand on the matter. She sighed a little. ”There used to be a great castle there, now abandoned and in ruins. Humans built it, but my kind, my clan, had lived there since long before… The humans struck an… accord with us… We would guard them at night, and they, in turn, were to guard us during the day… I was born there, in 938. The castle was sacked in 994, and I fled, thinking myself the last survivor of my clan…” She told her with simple honesty.