Fair Trade by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Author:Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Space Opera, Action & Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9781982126087
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2022-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

THREE

Klay was late, but Squithy didn’t worry that he’d forgotten his promise to come talk with her when his shift was done. She didn’t start counting, either. If she checked the tray of snacks and the pitcher of ice cold water she’d put in the middle of her desk three times, that was, according to the norbears who were keeping her company in her head, only a reasonable precaution. She’d brought food for sharing, and it was important to be sure that it hadn’t been eaten or snuck away.

Exactly who could eat or sneak the tray away out of Squithy’s own quarters while she was there, she didn’t ask, just being grateful for the company.

Which reminded her that pretty soon she wasn’t going to want norbear company.

Carefully, she formed a picture of Klay sitting against the door to the norbear area, being quiet, quiet, not listening, quiet.

A ripple of amusement greeted this, and a picture of two norbears snuggled in a grassy nest, lazily feeding tender leaves to each other.

Squithy felt her cheeks heat.

“We just want to talk,” she said, aloud. “In private. You wanted to talk in private when you were deciding who was going to go—”

She was interrupted by the wrist-patting sensation, accompanied by a feel of fur and comfortable drowsiness, before the presence of norbears inside her head was—gone.

The door buzzed, which meant that somebody—that Klay!—had put his hand over the plate and was asking if she would let him in.

She crossed the cabin to do just that.

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