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[open] in which Rein discovers the goo

Rein was very hungry when the Meet and Greet had separated, and found her way to the cafeteria. Taking up a tray twice her size with considerable effort, she floated over, hoping to get something like a cherry tomato or maybe some pasta.

SPLORCH

Staring at the goop, she tentatively poked it. It had the consistency of jello mixed with gravy. "This is it? This is food desu?"

The device started to tear up. "This is food?! NOOOOOO DESU!"

Sadly, Rein floated her tray back to the table and poked it with a fork.

She could have sworn it moved.

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"Actually, the ship does have regular food. It is, however, limited, and until we are able to get more supplies it's limited to being accessed only every couple of days." Said the Middleman, carrying his own tray of grayish goop.

"Sorry about that. On the upside it's formulated to the exact nutritional needs of each crewmember."

"Really? Well I guess that's okay," pouted Rein as she spooned up a giant spoon of goop and slurped the end of the spoon. "It's... not really good but it's filling."

Waggling the giant spoon and fork around, the little girl looked up at the Middleman and said, "I'm Rein. Nice to meet you Mr...?"

"The Middleman. Just the Middleman." He said with smile.

"Nice to meet you Rein."

Rein nodded. "Nice to meet you too Middleman," smiled Rein. It was either a title or a codename. Either or, it was pretty cool.

Slurping up a little of the goop, Rein sighed. "Well I suppose it's not too bad. Are you one of the veterans on the ship?"

"Yes, though I haven't been here as long as some."

"Ah I see," said Rein, slurping down more of the nutritional goop. "Must be jarring to have been here for a while at the least."

Gulping down another spoonful, Rein looked at her still full tray and sighed. "Somehow this stuff is killing my appetite and I'm getting full... But I don't want to waste it all desu."

The Middleman shook his head. "Don't worry about it. Stacy produces it herself. Which is kind of gross if you think about it too long, but it also means that for intents and purposes it's an infinite supply."

Rein nodded, trying not to think about a sentient ship giving them things to eat. The mechanics of that was just too creepy.

"All right, I'll eat what I can then desu!" exclaimed Rein, slurping another spoonful down.

Thaddos stalked in to the cafeteria, in his usual why-is-everyone-either-a-xeno-or-an-abomination? sulkiness, and general why-do-I-still-need-food grumpiness. He slopped up some food on a plate, which he didn't think was that bad. He had lived on dry, dusty rations when he still served in the Legio Victorium.

His continued sulking was interrupted by a small girl. She was small. And floating. Therefor, a cherub servitor. He stared at the servitor, and wondered just what it was doing here.

Rein slurped up a spoonful, making her way through her first tray. It was still filling, but the girl was still hungry. Looking up a Thaddos, she blinked and waved at him. "Hi, come to eat too desu?"

Thaddos stared some more. He was very good at it.

"And how would I be able to eat in the same messy manner as yourself, little ~~che~~girl." He caught himself in time, since this clearly was not a servitor. Or it was an incredibly advanced one.

"I have no lower jaw, if you hadn't noticed."

"Hmm, I hadn't thought about that," said Rein, tapping her chin in thought. "Sorry, I just wanted to know if you were coming to eat like I was desu!"

"Well, I do have these tubes..." Thaddos halted and stared at Rein. "Would you by chance be interested in... upgrades?"

He hoped this one would respond favourably. So far his success rate had been nil.

"Upgrades?" inquired Rein curiously. "You mean Device Maintenance? I didn't think anyone had the technology here to give me regular scheduled maintenance desu."

"But I dunno. I'm made of magic so it'd be hard for me to be upgraded properly without the technology available at the TSAB," said Rein.

Twitch. Another failure. Sorcery and... xeno tech. This was bad. Another failure.

Thaddos sat down and glared. Very different from stared. Very important, that.

"I can not graft you with holy tech, little cherub. Flit away."

Rein pouted, picked up her things and sighed. "All right desu. I didn't mean to bother you."

Slurping down the rest of her goop, she floated over, put her dishes away and picked up her bag. "Nice meeting you though desu."

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Fffff, posting in wrong place.

Hehehe ^_^ /patpat

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