"Good service." Ba'ith winked and gave a lazy, relieved smile that the uncomfortable moment had passed. He waited until Alger looked away and then he nodded over his shoulder again to the barmaid. "What would you say if I told you I have been watching you all week?"
Alger's chin jerked back slightly and his eyes flared. "Uh…" He swallowed the contents of his glass in one huge gulp and reached for the hookah again. The blue-grey smoke wafted from his mouth and rose like a transparent curtain in between them. Alger half giggled, half chuckled. "I'd say that it's perfectly understandable."
"You would?" Ba'ith raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, I would. After all, you are only human! BAHA!" Alger burst out laughing at the guilty expression on the assassin's face and then he took pity on him again. "O
