She stepped through the doors and saw the three women already there. She put on a smile that projected confidence she certainly didn’t feel. “Good evening.”

Lindsy’s focus shifted to the other woman joining them, a real smile appearing as she walked over to greet the other woman. “Tiraa, I’m glad you chose to join us.” It was true. And even after their lunch conversation the day prior, she had taken time to think further after dinner with the other two ladies and at the very least, wanted to give the XO a fair chance to decide how she wanted to show up in front of the rest of everyone else. She figured a more relaxed private setting would be best. She looked over the Orion woman “Looking good, although compared to the other two here, if you so choose, you're a bit over dressed.” It was said in a light hearted manner. She gently took the boxes from Tiraa and set them over on the table with the wine, taking a quick look. “Oh these are great! They’ll go perfect with the wine. Speaking of which, would you like some?”

“Yes, please.” Tiraa nodded to Lindsy but didn’t move to take off her wrap quite yet.

As if almost to not miss a beat, and also not wanting to be rude, T’Vara came up the steps part way after leaving her drink along the edge nearby, exposing her upper torso and extending a hand “I don’t believe we’ve been properly introduced. I am T’Vara, a medic in Sick Bay”.

The handshake was a surprise given it was a human greeting, but Tiraa took the other woman’s hand and gave it a light squeeze of greeting. “It is nice to finally meet you, T’Vara. I’m Tiraa Shai; I suppose I should be thankful I haven’t had reason to come visit you in sickbay, but I’m looking forward to getting to know you.”

In truth, the Romulan woman hadn’t been entirely certain on how to greet the Orion woman, so she decided to default to what about half the crew seemed to follow for greetings, even if a bit awkward. For the moment, it seemed to have connected successfully. “That is fair to say. But if you do need anything, I will make sure I’m available.”

Lindsy had already poured the Spring wine she had opened, taking a guess at it for Tiraa and handed her the glass, along with one of the pastries she had brought, on a white cloth towel. She looked over at the other two women in consideration.

T’Vara raised a hand palm forward “I will have one shortly, but for the moment I am good.”

Mei-Lin, having been quiet, gave a nod. “I would like one please.”

She had met the XO only for a bit prior during the initial briefing but nothing since. The conversation the night prior as well seemed to be in conflict with what her initial impression was of the XO. But she also didn’t know the woman so she didn’t want to place her into any box just yet. “It’s good to see you again Tiraa, I am sure you have been kept quite busy since joining us, along with everyone else. I wanted to say, that computer core you helped get the ship, is firing right along. It was quite fun to install.”

“I’m glad to hear it. I would be ashamed to provide a sub standard product.” Tiraa placed her glass down on the table next to her so she could step out of her shoes and untie the closure of her cover up. “How have you been getting along with Avery?”

The question nearly caught the woman off guard but she was going to be honest with Tiraa “Me, I’ve been just fine with him in engineering. We work well together and have gotten a lot of stuff fixed up and kept a good shift together. He’s a great leader, I’ve learned alot already.”

T’Vara slinked back into the water and grabbed her wine at the mention of the man. Her demeanor didn’t really shift, in her own mind she was already done with the man outside of a professional capacity.

Lindsy however, couldn’t hide her feelings about what T’Vara had told her and Mei-Lin just the night before. She decided it would be best to allow Tiraa to get settled in and relaxed before any deeper discussion about the man. “I think we should get relaxed here before going into any other discussion, what do you say? These nights are designed to let us relax without any of the men around, not to stay wound up.”

Taking her own advice, Lindsy followed suit of the other two that had entered prior, placing her clothes nicely on a chair and making her way into the water with her own glass of wine. She would have some of the pastries later as well.

Tiraa had no idea why, but one didn’t have to be an empath like her to see the shift in the room when she had mentioned Avery. Mei-Lin had answered her truthfully, but the other two weren’t thrilled by the man being brought up, and Lindsy’s encouragement to get comfortable before they continued a conversation confirmed her suspicion. She lifted one perfectly manicured brow and looked over to where the women were, but said nothing more and instead shifted out of her coverup. Underneath, she was wearing a simple black one piece that was astonishingly unexpectedly modest – it showed nothing more than what would naturally be displayed by wearing something that hugged the skin. The figure underneath the clothes was hardly surprising given her heritage, but she didn’t seem inclined to show it off at all.

Picking up her wine again, she moved to join them in the water but didn’t initiate the conversation again, instead she waited to see if they would pick up where they had left off or change topics.