Rareth chuckled. "Indeed, Ashley can be an entertaining individual. I worked with her before on a mission just over a year ago. It was a...complicated situation that brought us together, but it seems to have turned out for the best. I am the one who recommended her for this mission. I would have joined you last night, but I figure it would be best for at least one of us to have a clear head for the meeting." She explained while being courteous enough to keep her voice down. She made sure to steer clear of the kitchen upon Shiva's recommendation. Rareth had no idea what she was cooking, but if it was bad enough to warrant a warning, she trusted it would be a good idea to keep her distance. 

Once Shiva secured the tray away within the refrigerator, Rareth joined her in the kitchen for her own meal. Being obligate carnivores, Rothians required a diet of meat to survive. There were some plants they could get away with eating, but for the most part, their digestive system really did not agree with most plant matter. It was technically possible for them to subside on synthetic nutrient supplements, but it was much easier just to go with meat. Of course, Rothians had abandoned farming animals thousands of years prior, as almost all of their meat was simply grown from cultures of stem cells. It was a much more efficient process, and while there were still a few places where one could find meat from a dead animal, they were mostly just curiosities. In blind taste tests, the two types of meat were found to be near identical. 

Luckily, the meat was kept in a separate freezer from the refrigerator, so Rareth was able to find something to cook. It was meat grown from an animal native to Anskaria, though she had not tried it before. Technically, since it was lab-grown, it was absolutely safe just to eat it raw, but since she had the time to cook it, she figured she would. It would probably be the only thing she ate all day, given that cold-blooded metabolisms are more efficient than those of warm-bloods, at the expense of being able to regulate their own body temperature. "I'm afraid this is where my knowledge of our mission ends. I was kept up to speed on a lot of the aspects of this mission over the past few months, but whatever decisions they are going to relay to us today, they made recently, probably within the past few days. The only thing I know for sure is that we're going to be put on some kind of mission. I suppose they will also have to give us a ship, or at least assign us to one, but I don't know what kind it will be. No doubt each government has been arguing over that point for a while. Personally, I think the technological advantages of a Rothian ship would be good for a specialized team like this, but maybe I am biased."