Mei Ling Hikaru

Mei Ling is the barkeeper on the USS Mithrandir.

She is Eurasian, about 5' 4" tall and weighs about 110 lbs.

Formerly the bar manager on the Boudicca, she has now moved to the Mithrandir together with her pet, the psammead Tommy Tucker.

Her parents live in San Francisco, and run a popular bar/resttaurant there. One uncle, deceased, who left Tommy Tucker to her care.

Mei Ling inherited Tommy Tucker from her uncle, a travelling merchant spaceman of dubious reputation. The typical psammead (pronounced sammy-add) is essentially a lump of fur around the size of a very large cat or a largish small dog and is strangely-shaped, with retractable eyes on long stalks, batlike ears, prehensile toes, and a pudgy body shaped a little like a spider's and covered with thick soft fur; its legs and arms are furry too, and it has hands and feet rather like a monkey's. In addition, psammeads have extremely sensitive whiskers, resembling a rat's. It is grumpy, cranky, cantankerous, vain, abusive toward most people, but ultimately good-natured.