"Well, I order the buns from somewhere else. I think they're good, but I take no responsibility for them," Derek says with an amused huff of laughter. "But what's inside them? That I'll take credit for."

He nods and turns to call out for his cook to make an order of fries before turning back to the woman. Derek hadn't implemented too many changes when he took over Semele's, but he did tweak the food menu. He added more freshly made items and expanded the menu altogether, hiring an extra cook and training them on the way he liked to prepare things. What they make isn't quite as good as when Derek makes it, but he's told it's a good second.

"Boring? No," Derek says with a smirk, resting his hip against the bar and looking at her curiously. She seems human, but she can obviously tell that most of the other people in the bar aren't. "You, for example. You're shaking up to be pretty interesting."