Mimic Changes the World by James David Victor

Author:James David Victor [Victor, James David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2018-05-31T06:00:00+00:00

“So, what’d ya’ll get?” Gonzales asked as we got onto the ship, each of us laden with our own packs. Curious that she hadn’t asked us back when she had paid for all of it with credits from an account that I had no idea how she got access to, but I guess she just trusted us that much.

Either that or she was in a rush. I wasn’t really sure which, actually.

“Food,” Ciangi answered bluntly. She still was very obviously perturbed about Gonzales ditching us, but the weapons engineer just glossed right over it, not even breaking stride as she headed toward the cafeteria.

“Oh, great. That will go over well. Everyone loves food.”

We followed her and I decided to be the one to extend the olive branch. “I got some mulberries for a cobbler, and then some steaks that were apparently really good cuts.”

“I can’t believe that these are actual ingredients from Earth, and not created through a food synthesizer.”

“Yeah, you can get all sorts of things from the black market that just aren’t done anywhere else.”

“Remind me again why this stuff is illegal?” Eske asked, biting into an apple and making happy sounds.

“It’s not approved by the Universal Health Commission. Non-synthesized food just has too much of a risk of parasites or other food-borne illnesses.”

“And by that, you mean less than a one percent chance?”

“About,” Gonzales answered. “Agriculture came a long way from the stone age, but then we exhausted most of the Earth’s resources and had to turn to combining certain elements and nutrients into sustenance.”

We reached the cafeteria and she led us to the back, where I saw what looked like the most bare-bones and yet high-tech kitchen I had ever seen.

“Which is why we’re gonna hand cook this meal together for everyone. It’ll be a real party, ya know?”

“Whoa,” I murmured, taking it all in. “Why is this even on this ship?”

“In case the synthesizer goes out,” Eske answered, pushing her goggles up out of habit. “They wanted to make sure that they’d be able to cook food from raw ingredients and not starve.”

“Huh, I guess they really did think of everything, didn’t they?” Ciangi grumbled, looking slightly less churlish.

“Yeah, except for a shapeshifting alien and her crew coming in and stealing their biggest warship away,” Eske said, her smirk evident in her tone. “Twice.”

“Yeah, after the first time, they really had no excuse not to see that coming.”

“There we are!” Gonzales cried, dumping out one of her bags on the table, causing food to tumble out. “Bantering just like old time. Come on, let’s get to cooking before our new guests arrive!”

We exchanged looks but went to work anyway. Mimi, for never having cooked in her life on account of the whole not eating the same food we did, was actually pretty helpful. She listened to all of us as we asked for various things to make our random assortment of dishes and was the only one who could reach into the ovens without being burned.

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