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She had never been much for church but their certainly was something to be said for helping the underprivileged. The city certainly had it's share of bad areas as well, she knew well as she had planted her old bar in the center of one. Slightly closer to the Sanctuary she had drawn a rather violent crowd at times. Sje nodded as he mentioned it. "I know a few areas that would meet that description in the city, It's good to know someone cares for them" she replied wondering where the limits of the aide his church provided were. Some were anti mutant but others quietly tolerated them. She knew of many more of the first however. "Not enough of that these days" she said.

"A lot of paperwork, makes the rest seem easy. It's a line of whiskey of various kinds. We have swimming pools of product" she said jokingly though it was true. Much of it was made that way, her swimming or laying in pools of water, often with a current to make it easier. It was a lot and the machines in the brewery would soon be able to remake what she had making through touch.

Two Million Dollars? The number almost did not seem real, Like millions had been a word he had just invented. It certainly took her breath away and she was glad she had not been drinking when he said it, she have choked. She had vastly under estimated this giant of a man. He had obviously had money but to spend that much on a brand new liqueur product. Well who was she to say no, it would mean considerably more time creating the liqueur but that money would be worth it. Her parents would certainly shut up then, maybe she would even give them the collage money back. You'l have to have your people talk with mine for an order that large but it can be done" she said handing him a business card, not at all trying to keep the stunned tone out of her voice. Her bank account was currently under five grand, even after havens cut she could retire. Not that Melissa at all thought herself capable of retiring. "You would be right in saying it makes this more successful then i had thought" she agreed her mind catching up to her racing thoughts.

"I think we could celebrate, i'll warn ya though i can hold my liqueur" she said with a smile. She could to as despite her size, her power also had the effect of making it very hard to actually get drunk. Hard to believe less then a year prior she had been challenging people to drinking contests for $50-$100. "You have money and influence then, impressive. I was a bar owner before this" she mentioned though it seemd small compared to what was next to her. She pulled her mind out on considering investments that could be made.

She wonderd who this guy was and hoped the money legitimate. But that was what haven was for. "Anywhere you wanna go?" she asked sweetly.

Melissa had been building up to this for awhile. Haven had helped her get FDA approval to put her brand on the shelf's, she had spent much of the past few months heavily advertising and talking with former suppliers she knew from her own bar and from Sam's. Some nights she had barely slept going from meeting to meeting and making all of the product took a decent amount of time as well as did making the equipment to make it look legit to the athoraties. That had always been her biggest fear anyway. They had the chance to shut her down if they found that much of her product was made by her swimming in the product. On the bright side she had become a very strong swimmer as well.

The event had been scheduled all day and security was at each entrance into the building to check ID as well as control any who got to out of control, the last thing she wanted was to get busted for serving under age or be shut down for an out of control brawl by people who just could not hold their liquor. She hoped it would not be an issue but had been in the bar business long enough to expect it to happen.

Within the building, an old hotel Haven had bought at some point their were various stations looking like small bar's with bartenders behind each, serving different types of the brand. All of it was high shelf liqueur in various flavors, including strawberry, apple and cherry and more as well as some that had higher alcohol content and less flavor for the heavy booze hounds.

It felt a bit weird not to be behind the bar for this, but she had been told and had agreed that it would be better for her to go around and mix into various groups to promote the brand and try to get it into more liqueur stores and eventually out of state as well. It was her dream evolved much as her power had evolved her. Another point she and Haven had agreed on was using some of the eventual products to help aide mutant kind as well as letting Haven get a small cut as well to help their own pro mutant operations.

She stood in the main lobby drinking a strawberry colored drink that only resembled her actual booze, it was really flavored water but she wanted to give the illusion she was enjoying her own brand without being wasted before noon. They had opened at 8am the earliest they legally could and while so far it had been a bit slow that was to be expected a few hours til noon. Xilx herself wore, dress pants and a white silk top, her hair in a tight bun and her nails a deep blue, she wanted to stand out for this after all and be easily identifiable. She could not help but smile. They were even serving some light food to help people stomachs get ready for the day and most of the liquer was half off to help promote the brand.

He was interesting one and she could see their were things he seemed reluctant to talk about. "Yea, the dragon was not much fun, it burned a number of building to the ground before it was finally taken out. The dragon just kinda vanished when it died. Theirs news footage available" she offerd recalling the attack. she had been caught up in it and with her powers was not at all equipped to do very much. Mutants of course had saved the day and at the time they had assumed the dragon mutant related but now, since the emergence of mystics she was less sure.

"That's good, likely kept them alive. Those with power should protect those without" she said trying to probe the man. somthing about the way he said made a fire sparked her mind into wondering if we were a mutant himself or a mystic. who knew these days and in the end she was still sure mutants were superior. Humans were needed of course and she wished no true harm to them as a whole, so long as they paid their tabs of course.

"You did good with that fire, some would have saved only themself s" she said having met a lot of those types over the years considering where her old location had been it was not surprising. She would dlikely have saved herse self if she could, she lacked much strength to help others in a real crisis. No her suty was serving those after the issue had passed.

The idea of it maybe being a magic user stopped her patron for a moment and she could not help but wonder why but chose not to press further there. Mages were still new and the trust in them had not setteled much with mutants or humans.The thought of her boss being a kid was still an odd one for her, part of her had wonderd how it would have turned out if she had been the one to get way younger. With her power it could easily have lead to weird encounters with cops and others. She was not at all surprised when he passed to bite at that line a she likely would have as well in his place.

"No, im from San francisco, moved here about seven years ago. Wanted to start a bar for mutant kind and so planted roots in the thick of the more heavily mutant populated area near Sanctuary." she said knowing the bad memories for some that place brought and hope for still others. It had improved its reputation under its newer management but that had had other issues as well with the more volatile sanctuary residents.

"well no matter the cause of the storm, im sure it will either end soon or some hero or another will stop it, best to sit back relax and have a few drinks" she said playfully with a bright smile. She had learned over the years it was often best ti let the city go whatever funny direction it felt like on a givin day. "Its the city, i'm just happy the blizzard is made of snow and ice and not blood" she said having seen a number of rather brutal scenes over the years

Eleven people, more then she had thought but still easily handled came in and she smiled in her friendly way. Glanceing out the window the blizzard was actually seeming to pick up. She was glad the people had found the place, not one of them looked dressed for the weather and none had physical mutations she could see. Most seemed content to take various seats and warm up, they did not sere hot drinks but what could ya do.

A man walked up to the bar and asked for water which made Melissa glance at the window a second but she poured the man a glass of water as requested with a few ice cubes, making sure to keep the water in the cup and set it in front of him. Her own hands smelled a bit of booze. She turned and hit one of the Tv's with her hand, but the picture refused to comply. "Tv's are out sadly, hopefully just some mutant kid and not the city being shifted to the ice age" she joked though she realized she really meant it.

The city had a tendency to draw the strange, from alternate earths, to police robots to shared future dreams and alternate futures the city had a way of not letting normalcy settle in. She wished her joke was less possible then it might of been and normal or not their was cash to be made and customers to serve. "Thankfully the pipes have not froze" she commented making sure to let the water run just a bit. "Name's Melissa and you?" she asked curiously making a man who walked up to the bar a shot before we wandered back to his booth.