"I am Mako and thank you for the offer but I have some tea for drinking," she says just as she hooks another fish. Cleaning them is easy enough and she is very good with her little knife, deboning with a skill that says she's done this often. She has a small frying pan, a touch of oil, a little salt, and some pepper, and before not too long the scent of frying fish is in the air. Mako offers him the first finished fry on a plate and begins her own.

"Party," she says with a tilt of her chin, "is an unusual name but one could say Mako is as well."