As she strode towards the medical bay, River enjoyed a pleasant buzz of anticipation. She was quite prepared to handle physical discomfort and in any case it was a small price to pay to experience something new and helping someone out into the bargain. She'd been wracking her brains for species that needed to feed on sentient beings. After discarding some possibilities (the apparent lack of a limit on species that could be fed on ruled out quite a few) she'd come up with a short list of guesses as to the identity of her soon-to-be-beneficiary. And of course she was extremely curious to see what sort of people her fellow donors would turn out to be.

Arriving at her destination, she took in the somber atmosphere. Was anyone else at all happy to be there? It was easy to guess the one who was going to be doing the feeding (not a species she'd seen before, how interesting), and even he looked like he'd rather be elsewhere. Then again, it seemed like most of those aboard the ship weren't used to dealing with non-humans, so maybe they'd been less than understanding of his needs. In any case she judged it best that she dial down on her eagerness a little as she approached him and waited for what might be a good time to introduce herself.