Skewed Justice, Pt 2

Eva was only about halfway through her plain meal when a person sat opposite her. To her chagrin, he had much nicer looking food than she did - he had a bed of pasta with a perfectly grilled fish on top. The entire dish smelled far better than her own.

Out of curiosity, she glanced around at the other dishes and found that the great majority had middling quality. Only a handful had truly delicious meals.

She couldn’t help but wonder how he had achieved that.

“You gotta come in starving,” he said after some time. “They treat you a little better if you come in with your stomach going sideways.”

“What?” she muttered. “How’d you know what I was thinking about?”

“You been staring at my food for a while now.”

Eva blushed and turned away.

“Sorry,” she said. “Didn’t mean to be rude.”

The man just waved it off.

“Don’t worry about it,” he replied.