Ishaza's practiced eyes pick out the illuminated heart on the silhouette's right wrist. "You're Elisandra's wife, then?"

She nods. "Got it in one! She's my sunflower.~" She phases right through the low counter and sits in her wife's lap.

Elisandra leans in and kisses her shadow-wife, then smiles back at Ishaza. "I was just telling Ishaza here about how we're settling in in New Los Angeles."

"It was a big decision, settling in here. To say that I was surprised by Eli coming back from the Bowers with a job offer is an understatement."

"I'm surprised she risked the Doors of Night when she had a wife already."

"Sunaira just... didn't seem like the kind of person who would want to separate me from the woman I love most in all the world. And after our daughter left the nest, well... We were searching for something and we didn't know what it was we were looking for."

"Though we had a guess it could be found in bed."

Ishaza laughs. "And so the Bowers found you! Tell me, do you regret it?"

"Too early to tell."

"We were considering having another daughter together, but New Los Angeles is no place to raise a child."

"We still wonder, sometimes."

"I think you'll come to realize you made the right choice after a few more months here. New Los Angeles is - I don't think there's anywhere else like it in the entire OTC."

"It's really, really weird knowing that practically everyone I pass on the street here is, well..."

"An 'escort.' Yes. That is the legal fiction."

"I mean, I still do rounds of the front..."

"As do we all, dear, as do we all. But it's hard to describe it as a job when all you have to do is be a permanent resident of the Bowers."

"Hm. Speaking of which, I should make you that shawarma."

"A little hard to do with your wife in your lap, I would think."

Thistle shifts down to lie mostly flat behind and inside the counter. "There, that's better."

And Eli starts pulling ingredients out of the console on little plates and putting them together.

"I like your house, by the way. You've put some thought in here."

"The body of it is prefab, but the calligraphy over the door is mine."

"And obviously we had to tweak the main floor a bit to get the restaurant how we liked it."

"I like that you only put in three tables. It says you know what you want."

Eli ducks her head. "Yeah, I've never really liked crowds much. But serving people - that's okay." 

She wraps a selection of veggies and spiced meat up in a thick pita, and offers it to Ishaza.