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Crew Common Room


Truly, it was a day of wonders.

Jen Sin paused just inside the new common room, soothed by the orderly groupings of chairs and tables.

A modest wine closet sat on a long ledge at the back of the room, with another beverage keeper, at the moment stocked with beer, lemonade, and bottles of cold tea.

A screen made part of one grouping of chairs, and he recalled Joyita joining the group from his comm tower, via screen, when he had visited on Bechimo.

Two of the tables supported bright ceramic pots, each holding a green thing. Plants, he realized. Gods, he had missed green growing things.

Carefully, he crossed the room, and took a bottle of cold tea from the cooler. He uncapped it and looked about him as he drank.

Theo and her crew had produced comfort, he allowed. He would tell her that she had done well, and perhaps…

Perhaps, he thought, they might have a small reception, all of them together—even Seignur Veeoni, if she could be brought to the point. Perhaps Clarence would consent to make a batch of maize buttons for the occasion.

He smiled somewhat at the thought, finished his tea, and put the empty bottle in the tray to be washed before he left, the lights dimming behind him.


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