Shore Leave: The Bar

Cass enters the cottage. The front door leads into a tiny hallway which in turn has a door that leads to the main room that she saw into through the window. The door to that room is open but she can't see the couch from this angle.

Cass sneaks closer to the door until she can see the couch. It's empty. Whoever it was that was sleeping on the couch must be a very light sleeper. This experience is sobering Cass up almost as fast as Moira's Lion Bile would have.
Cass can hear light breathing from the other side of the door, close to the wall.

There is a long pause. Finally, you get a reply. A woman's voice says: "This is my cottage and I've done nothing wrong. You have no right to just come in here"

"And I am Lt. Commander Zephyr Borealis' personal guest. Now either piss off or come in and shoot me but if you do that, he might do the same to you."

"He might. He's done dumber things for me." You can hear that the woman's voice seems to have relaxed slightly as well now but she still doesn't show herself. "And I'm sure he would have invited me in but he wasn't home, so I decided to wait for him."

After a short moment, the woman steps into the doorway. She has a knife in her hand but it's not raised. She's a little bit taller than you but very skinny to the point where it doesn't seem healthy anymore.
"You must be Cassano then. I thought you'd be prettier." She gestures towards the couch. "Come in, grab another drink. Smells like you've had a couple already."

"I'm Vega", she replies, as if that answers your question. "Where's Zeph? If you let him know I'm here, he'll tell you it's fine."

Vega sits down on the couch and puts the knife down on the table. Cass notices a small, unlabeled bottle of pills on the table next to the drink and food. "Honestly, that's none of your business."

Julia sits down with Moira, the people she came in with have withdrawn from the whole conversation some time ago and are talking to each other as well as other patrons of the bar.
Now that the chaos seems to have subsided a bit after her mother and Cass have stormed out, Julia seems to calm down a bit and to be able to better focus on Moira and understand her.
"I wasn't actually looking for her. I didn't even know she would be here. I'm stationed here, Junior Operations Officer in one of the environmental control centers on the island. Maen put in a word for me and helped me get the position here right after I graduated." She looks a bit embarrassed about admitting that she had help in getting her assignment. "But if I had known what she went through... Those messages just flew past me."

Julia leans slightly away from Moira. That woman is acting very familiar, considering they've just met a few minutes ago.
"Yes, Maen. Actually, for you it would be Theliak. He's Farredan, they're very particular about their names.", Julia explains. "He came to the Academy to speak to my professor about a project of his. He's a very interesting man and not just because of his biology." Although she's still a bit hesitant to speak to Moira about her personal matters, the engineer notices her eyes light up with excitement when she speaks about her fiance.