Damaged Control by Viola Grace

Author:Viola Grace [Grace, Viola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Shattered Stars, Adult, Romance, Science fiction, Space Opera
ISBN: 9781989892572
Publisher: Viola Grace
Published: 2020-11-21T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

While they ate Melr’s current offering, Tolr disappeared.

Athena ate from Etska’s lap, and it did, indeed, slow her down.

“Where did Tolr go?”

Etska picked up one of the small finger sandwiches, and he sniffed at it. “I don’t know. He has his own meals and schedules to arrange.”

They continued to eat, and when she was full, she held up her hand when Etska tried to give her another piece. “Enough.”

“You are underweight.”

“Not by much.” She sighed. “I am comfortable with things. I like the muscles that I have gained.”

“They were a pleasant surprise. You look so slight, but there is strength in you.”

She snickered. “There had better be. I had to haul Tber and Hivr out of a bog. Those guys are heavy.”

He grumbled. “You were in the bogs?”

“For an entire week.” She chuckled and braced her hands on the table to move from the backless couch that he was sitting on to the chair.

He wrapped his arm around her and used the other hand to continue his lunch. “It is even more amazing that you survived your time as a forager. It is normally assigned to those that lack intelligence but have strength and can follow orders.”

“Well, we were given a larger bunkhouse with shower facilities, but that could have been because we were mixed sexes.”

He grunted. “That is standard. The same-sex teams have the advantage of numbers. Also, your combined scores were impressive, so it added amenities.”

“You have looked into it?”

“I went over your records last week. For one team to correctly identify the uses of the items that they found is rare. For them to bring back the volume that you did is exceptional.”

She chuckled. “Thank you. It was like herding cats.”

“What is a cat?”

She explained cats to him for five minutes before he nodded.

“Soft to the touch, deadly, and yet friendly? It sounds like khitan. They fly. Hm, perhaps I should import some.”

“Okay, sounds sort of similar to cats, though cats with wings would be terrifying. Well, cats with opposable thumbs would be worse.” She snickered.

He continued to clear the plate, offering her each of the small bites before he took it.

“So, what are we doing this afternoon?”

He took a sip of water. “We are returning to the research facility and going through level by level to see what they are doing with your findings.”

“Yeah, about that. If you designed this place, why don’t you know what all the plants are?”

“I have mixed and mingled seeds and plants from hundreds of worlds. They landed on this soil and began to grow. Their growth patterns and the end result is not predictable. That is life. It takes strange and unusual pathways. So, we get the foragers in to take samples of what has grown. It is determined if it is stable, can be used for seeding, and then it goes to the greenhouses and the experimental fields for germination.”

“Like the fruit.”

“Right. Like the fruit you had this morning. It is good raw, excellent cooked, and oxidizes when juiced into something that tastes completely different.

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