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Ramon scowls at the end of his cigar as it's gone out. This seems to personally offend him, especially as he's run out of matches. He could order some more, but he's bored and there's a smoker not too far away from him, sitting at the bar. So he gets up.

'You got a light amigo?'

Ryan looks at him, a rather bland look on his face.

"Sure thing." He takes his lighter out of his pocket and hands it to Ramon.

He grins at the guy as he takes it, happily oblivious to the bland look. 'I keep losing these things, I think the bar takes them back when I put them down.'

He's been thinking about the plans he was going to put into practice before leaving for Amber. The conversation he had with Chris has been playing in his head, for obvious reasons...but he doesn't make the connection for the time being. He flips the lighter between his fingers and doesn't hand it back. 'You look bored as hell.'

He shrugs.

"This place can get tiresome after you've been here a while. Maybe it's the lack of tv," he smiles wryly.

He laughs. 'TV is boring. Better to make your own entertainment. I guess I haven't been here long enough to get bored yet, I dont seem to be running out of things to keep myself occupied.'

He looks at the man closely. 'Find yourself something to do. It's not hard.'

He could have said 'someone' but is in a good mood and not really looking to wind anyone up. Yet.

"I suppose you're right," he says with a slight grin.

"You sound like you're enjoying this place. Met any of the more interesting patrons?"

He gets a wide grin. 'I'm very much enjoying this place. I've just been away for a week or so, it's fun to be back where the action is though. And it depends on who you mean by 'interesting patrons'. I've certainly met a few that I wouldn't find back home.'

It is probably clear from his tone of voice that Ramon considers himself an intresting patron.

Well, he's certainly been keeping the rest of the 24 pups on their toes.

Ryan thinks for a moment. "Well, I've met a talking car with Artificial Intelligence. There's the bard Jasin Natael, I'm not sure what his deal is. I've heard he's a demon of some sort. Then I met this guy the other week, Random, he's 9,000 years old. Probably a wizard or something. I'm not sure."

He chuckles, and starts to wonder. Because he's just that paranoid - and he has had the advantage of having had a physical description given to him.

'I've haven't met a talking car and I dont think I'd like to - I wouldn't want one that could answer back.' He pauses for a moment and there's a small smile on his face. 'I know the other two. Well - I know Random and yes, he's magic. As for Jasin...not someone I care to spend time with.'

He orders a drink and sips it, while eyeing the other man. 'So what's your name?'

Ryan notices the smile and assumes Random must be a friend of his. He takes a drag of his cigarette and exhales, watching the smoke disperse before answering.

"Ryan Chappelle."

And it's a measure of how chilled he is today that he doesn't immediately get mad. Instead he just smokes for a moment, pensively eyeing the other guy and finding that he's not really at all surprised.

'Well, at least that saves me the trouble of introducing myself.' Smokes some more. 'I've had the pleasure of meeting your daughter a couple of times Ryan. She's beatuiful. Not too smart, but beautiful.'

Ryan was expecting something like this so he doesn't react much. Just a tightening in his chest and he looks away briefly.

"Yes, she mentioned meeting you."

'Yes, I expect she would have done. It's fair to say that she almost pushed me a bit too far last time we met.' He takes a drink. 'You should advise her not to do that again.'

Ryan is silent. There was no way he could respond to this. The truth would come to close to sounding like he was agreeing with Salazar and he wasn't going to give him that satisfacation.

And arguing might just amuse him.

So Ryan continues smoking his cigarette, the same impassive look on his face.

He smiles lazily, fairly sure that the impassive look is just a mask. He would have liked the man to rise to the bait but is a little impressed that he doesn't. He expects Jack not to - but Jack's trained for it and this guy definitely doesn't look like a field agent.

He finishes his drink and puts the glass down. 'I'll leave you to your boredom Ryan. I have things to do and while I'm sure you'd like to hear about them, having you get in my way is not in my plans.'

He grins. 'Was nice to meet you. I keep thinking I must finally be getting close to meeting all you CTU people in this bar...' He's walking away. '...but it's incredible, you seem to keep multiplying. Like a virus or something.'

[OOC: *dies at icon*]

Ryan looks away in disgust as Ramon walks away. He puts his cigarette out and stands up, suddenly needing some fresh air.