[Grainne smiles, absently playing with the snake's tail. Not really a nervous gesture, more like she disliked having her hands still.

While he's talking, she starts angling at a cider booth she'd noticed on the way over, pulling out some coins to buy them both a drink. Cider happens to be her favorite! It's also great with conversation.]

So the peace initiative was successful? There were quite a few border disputes as I recall. The Cardassian military seems to me rather... tyrannical, in the way a small child is. [She may have kept up with the Federation News Service a little. It was reading material anyway.]

Oh, if you have the chance you really should correspond with her. Ah, did you see her botanical section? It's rather impressive. She knows more about medicinal properties of plants than many healers I've encountered.