Trelon walked into his living quarters and realized almost immediately the mess that had stunned him before was set up in a somewhat organized pattern. The more he gazed at the components scattered—no, not scattered. They were organized by their uses, he realized. Power was in one section and organized by capacity. Another held modules.
The more he looked, the more he appreciated what Cara was doing. She was disassembling components, but it was to discover what they were. She had spread out items on the couch that she had either put back together or modified.
Trelon moved over and picked up his parts cloner. He frowned as he noticed the changes she had made to it. It looked like she had used parts from the food replicator to modify it. Pressing the button and scanning a splicing tool lay
