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Jaki nodded at those who had ordered a drink and moved towards the bar area, where she calmly and precisely laid down the orders, getting herself a fruit juice.
She glanced at the man at the bar, nodding at him with a small, serious smile on her face. Then she returned to the table and gave out the drinks that she had bought, and was about to simply move away again, to a table of her own when a man from another table approached and asked for food.
Jaki Vampyler knew without a doubt that she should not give this man money. The money that he had he had just spent on alcohol, and that was obviously not helping him. But that was something to worry about later. She was in the fortunate position of being standing, so she stepped forwards and put her arms under the armpits of this unfortunate man. She was surprisingly strong for a woman of her slight build, although her muscles bulged as she lifted him, hefting him up and onto a chair, checking his head where he had hit it on the stool. She no longer paid attention to the fact that this table was full of people she mostly did not know, as she was too concerned with the wretched specimin in front of her. She held him in place and turned to the bar. She did not let go of the man, but she spoke a command to the bartender with a calm but authoritative voice.
Stew, please, as quickly as you can, and someone to clean up this mess? she motioned to the smashed bottle.
The others were forgotten for the moment, as she tended to the man in front of her. If he could understand her, or seemed vaguely able to, she spoke, quite firmly What is your name? she asked, for want of something better to say.
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