As soon as she spoke he knew he'd been right. The Irish brogue that rolled off of her tongue thrilled him. It was rather easy to find people from other countries here, Brazil, Ireland, Iceland. It seemed that wherever the meteors had hit, it had driven people inland. Las Vegas, one of the last surving cities in the whole world and was a virtual melting pot of different races and cultures. He hadn't yet met one from Ireland though.
And he knew the minute she said she was "alright" that she was understating her ability. Anyone who said they were alright was being modest most of the time, and the glimmer in her eyes told him that much. "Right, you'll have to play alright for me some time. You know, just so I can judge for myself." He grasped her smaller hand in his big paw and shook. "Aeryn Flynn..." He said it aloud, echoing her, as if testing it out. He liked the sound of it and he grinned in response. He took up the mug of beer she'd poured for him and drank half of it before he set it back down on the bar.
He laughed when she said she was from Utah. "Right, and I'm from Vegas." He nodded, grinning as he looked away from her and down into the half empty mug of been he was running his fingers over. He noted the crumpled vouchers as she left them on the bar and he sat up a little straighter. "Leaving already?" He hadn't gotten a chance to get to know her yet and he didn't want her to disappear. "Hey, uh... you wouldn't be interested in helping me finish off a bottle of whiskey I've got stashed at my place, would you?"
Wow, that was lame. But he'd been scrambling for an excuse to take her home, and that was the best he could come up with. "I think it might be Irish?" He tried tacking on something that might appeal to her. He didn't know exactly what he had in his liquor cabinet back in his suite, but he was pretty sure there was some whiskey. Besides, she looked like she could use a place to crash for the night and maybe he could get her to eat a giant breakfast the next morning. She was too damn pretty to be left alone tonight.