"Jonah C. Ramekin, a pleasure to make your acquaintance..."

"Jonah C. Ramekin, a pleasure to make your acquaintance Miss Sharisha." You say, taking her left hand with your own and shaking it once, firmly.

"It's Mrs, but not for much longer..." She says eyes darkening.

"But you don't want to talk about that, so lets get back to occupations." You say steering the ship of the conversation firmly AWAY from the rocks, and back into open water.

"Well you know mine, so what's yours?" Sharisha asks.

"I'm an author." You state, not admitting just yet that you are currently between jobs, though you HAVE had work published it wasn't anything like 'Harry Potter' or even 'The Berlin Fraternity', so calling yourself an 'Author' is shading the truth a bit.

"Aspiring or Professional?" She asks genuinely interested.

"I've had a few things published but I would still consider myself 'Aspiring'." You admit, deciding to be honest.

"What kind of subjects, what genres? Your published work I mean..." She queries sipping her drink.

"Science Fiction and Fantasy mostly, though after my stay here I may have to revise some of those descriptors in the future..." You state.

"You and me both." She mutters and you wonder what she means by that, actually asking after a momentary silence.

"So did you 'accept a promotional offer' too?" You ask.

"Oh, no, I didn't. My world has known about alternate universes and parallel dimensions for centuries but you never realize how much of what get's passed off as fiction is real until you actually visit a resort or other dimensional nexus like this one." She explains. "I mean take humans for example: sure they exist in STORIES and RPGs, but here I am actually talking to one!" She says, and that tickles something at the back of your mind...

"Your a Nagha, aren't you?" You ask, looking at Sharisha's scalloped ears and scales that come to the edge of her nightgown, remembering a brief flirtation with an MMORPG that featured creatures similar to her.

"Oh, close, but your pronunciation's off, its said 'Naga', straight 'g' sound, not a 'gh', good for a first attempt though." She says smiling at your mild embarrassment.

"Sorry, my world has theories about there being parallel dimensions but I'm the first person from it I know of to ever actually visit one." You say, tearing your eyes away from her zero-g tits.

"Do all the males on your world take this long to ask a woman for what they really want?" Sharisha queries out of the blue.

"And what would that be?" You reply...