Chapter Five
But Tina realised with a dark feeling that all the ship’s provisions had been stolen while it was in dock at Aurora Station. She had even helped do it.
She pulled herself through the corridors to the ship’s galley and adjacent mess, which seemed too large for the few people who were in there.
Margot was pulling open all the storage cabinets, while exclaiming her displeasure at all the things that had gone missing. It was hot in the kitchen, and Margot’s face shone with sweat.
“They instructed the crew from all the merchant ships on the station to come here and raid the food storage for their ship supplies,” Tina said.
“Who? The station managers at Aurora?”
“Yes. There was a long wait to get ship supplies and many merchants and private vessels wanted to leave, but the Shi
