Charity Evening
WHO: Jilleen Simmons and James Chase WHERE: Caprica City, Caprica WHEN; During AVALON's visit to Caprica
She squeezed her husband's hand.
The light instrumental music played in the background was mostly drowned out by the chatter of people speaking to each other at the tables as the last of the desserts were served. Jilleen wearing a black silky evening gown sat next to her handsome husband who wore a smart black suit and tie.
They were here to attend a charity banquet to support the restoration of rain forests on Canceron. Jilleen's mother had been a long time environmentalist and had supported the cause ever since Jilleen can remember. She had come on behalf of her mother's memory. The people attending the dinner were not exactly her kind of people, but the charity was still a worthy cause. Some of the guest had even contributed to her brother's election campaign the year before, but she was not here on account of them. It was really a matter of timing and opportunity.
Jilleen gazed at James while he spoke with the Quorum's council-member representing Canceron about lake trout in the upper Cancer mountains. Her husband glanced at her for a split second, and continued. "Now, Jill caught a fifteen pound red trout on an orange cricket fly on the first day."
She leaned forward to look past James to explain to the councilman. "Sir, James deserves the credit for the catch. He rigged the fly and passed the rod to me while he took a bottle of beer out of the cooler. I'm not really a good angler, I mostly net them for the assist. My brother could attest to that, if you look closely at his right ear the next time you see him. You will see a little scar where I hooked him and nearly ripped his ear off when I was nine."
It made the elder councilman and others laugh who heard her little story at the expense of her brother, the new governor of Aerilon.