"Watch and learn my friend, watch and learn" He shot back at Oman, and with that swaggered off to the Alien's table.
He got about halfway, before realising just how big the guy was, and since he'd had to hand in his blaster before coming onboard the station, Kullum felt suddenly exposed, but he hid it well.
"You look like a handsome fella, perhaps you can help me"
The alien glanced up from his drink to look at Kullum, and blinked all three of his eyes...
"You taking the piss?" he growled, clearly not amused.
Kullum held his hands up, backtracking quickly...
"Whoa, no I'm serious, I'm sure you have all the...er..." Kullum suddenly realised he had no idea if the alien was male or female, took a gamble... "...women... going mad after such a distinguished looking gentle...uh..man such as yourself..." He continued...
The alien frowned at this, or at least appeared to, and before he could speak or offer any form of objection, Kullum had already sat down opposite him...
"I thought that the moment I saw you sitting there, and don't think I didn't see that waitress flirting with you"
The alien seemed to look at Kullum like he was mad...
"She said she'd seen better looking Banthas" he complained, adding "Moody bitch" under his breath as he took another sip of his drink...
Kullum saw his moment, "Na, I'm tellin you mate, she's just playing hard to get, they all say that!"
The alien seemed to stop and think about this for a moment mid-sip.... "Eh?" he murmured eventually...
"I'm serious, thats why I came over here , I wanted to know your secret, that waitress who just served you, I overheard her saying how handsome you were!"
He bought his cup down and stared at Kullum for a moment, and then glanced back over his shoulder to the waitress serving other customers...
"She said I was handsome?"
"Cross my heart and hope to die" Kullum replied, lying through his backteeth.
"But she said she wouldn't touch me with a ten foot lightsaber" The alien moaned, causing Kullum to roll his eyes, unnoticed by the alien...
Sheesh...
He leaned forward and whispered "She is so playing hard to get"
"you're full of shit" The alien said, his three-eyed gaze however still not moving away from the object of his affections...
"Why would I lie? I don't know you, I have no reason to!"
The alien turned back to face Kullum and frowned... "you're not from the tax office are you?" He asked warily...
"No, look, the name's Kullum, I'm just a traveller looking for a place to find some more...discerning adult entertainment, with all the attention you appeared to be getting , you seemed like a bit of a player to me"
The alien turned round once more to stare at the waitress... "you really think she's playing hard to get?"
Kullum nodded "yes!"
The alien turned back, his expression softened a little..." well I have been told I have amazing eyes" He added, proudly...
Kullum jumped at this "There you go!"
"She really said that?" The alien seemed eager now...
"Look lets get her over here, and you'll see"
The alien, almost choked on its drink, as Kullum began waving for the woman's attention...
Eventually she made her way over...
"What will it be?" she asked
"I was just telling my friend here that you find him very handsome" Kullum replied...
Her face dropped, and her reply was instant "Are you for real? I..." -- but then she froze mid-sentence, as Kullum waved a large bunch of credit chits behind the oblivious alien's head, the woman, thankfully, still the focus of his attention..
"...find that I'm becoming more attracted to him by the second" she continued abruptly, doing her level best to hide her obvious disgust, all the while keeping her eyes fixed upon the wad of credits Kullum was holding...
As the alien turned back to face Kullum , he quicky darted his hand full of credits out of sight to the back of his head, as if scratching something out of reach...
"you see! told you! Uh, a bottle of whiskey please"
Waitress seeing this, circled around the table, and snatched the wad of credits from Kullum's hand, all in one fluid motion, so smoothly in fact Kullum had the distinct impression she'd done this before...
"Bottle of whiskey coming right up" she said cheerily over her shoulder, before pausing to fix a smile for the alien...
The alien returned one back, (it was not a pretty sight) a look of surprise crept over his face as he glanced the wad of credits she was trying unsuccessfully to stuff into her hip pocket...
"Boy" he started turning to face Kullum,
"you sure tip a lot"
"The spacer leaned back on his chair and smiled broadly as he replied..
"I'm just that kinda guy..uh...sorry I didn't catch your name?"
The alien grinned also, at least, Kullum thought it was a grin...
Hard to tell...
"Samos..." The alien responded, extending his massive hand..
Kullum smiled, shaking it firmly, and as he saw the waitress coming back with the bottle he ordered, he knew he was getting somewhere, he just hoped the ugly son of a bitch had something useful he could use...
"Well, Samos, how about you and I share this bottle of whiskey, and you can fill me in on the best places in town" He asked, as she put it down in front of them, her fixed smile making her look like a pleasure droid "My treat" the spacer added...
The alien looked up at Kullum, laughed abruptly and placed a massive club-like hand on his shoulder...
"you're alright Kullum, you're alright" He replied, as he grabbed the bottle eagerly...