We busied ourselves with preparing dinner.
Even though the ship had a food lab, the food on board consisted mostly of freeze-dried things that had been packed and stored so long that it was impossible to determine what they had been. Most of the rations were red-coded, so the choice in diet was even more boring for me, not to mention bland. When heated up, Thayu’s dinner smelled a lot nicer than mine, but I knew better than to try to eat some.
We’d just finished eating when the door opened and a crew member came in. It was a woman I hadn’t seen before, one of the lower-ranked ship crew.
She looked at everyone in the room, stopping at me. “Delegate. Come.”
I glanced at Thayu and Nicha. Should they come with me?
She pre-empted that with, “Only you can come.”
“For what purpose?”
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