We did it, we released the octopuses and despite how small
they were they lifted the barrels and we attached them to the ship and we sent
the old supply ship away.
Yvain piloted the ship for me so I wouldn’t be suspiciously sick. I just want Breathe Easy to send us more supplies. We have been reusing some filters, so our air and water are metallic and thick. I cannot believe that Yuda, who worked so hard on changing the filters every day, would fail to see the need for new printer material.
I also finally asked Yvain about the meetings with the anti-union group. We were lying together in my bed – which he has done for a few weeks now, although we are not having sex.
He sighed. “They are very angry, to the point of violence. Their extremist words feed each other’s violence, and I am trying to guide it into other outlets. I physically work them until they can barely stand, and that has helped so far.”
“You are making them stronger?” Horror leached into my question. “If they become physically strong enough, they could overpower the other group.”
“That’s what I’m worried about,” Yvain said. “There are more unionizers than anti-unionizers, and I think they would actually get themselves hurt, possibly even killed, if they took the group on all at once.”
“But what if they try to sneak up and attack the unionizers, one at a time?”
“I know they want to do that. I am trying to convince them that this is dishonorable, and not something that Breathe Easy would want us to do.”
I nodded. I don’t think the tactic will work, but at least there is some guidance for the moment. “What about Payam?” I asked.
Yvain sighed. “I think he is beginning to believe their rhetoric. He didn’t at first, and I told him that I was only there to guide the dangerous chaos in their hearts, but we have been around them for so long now that I think he actually agrees with their morality. He was a soldier, but he was not in the military for very long, spent only a few months on the front line before receiving a dishonorable discharge. He didn’t have time to think about the pain he was being asked to endure for a country that barely put a roof over his head.”
“You’re starting to sound like one of the unionizers,” I said.
“I don’t completely disagree with them,” he replied. “And with the hatred emanating from the anti-unionizers, we might be safer with Samira and her strange preaching.”
“But Chloe wants to use sabotage of our food supplies and filters, which puts us in danger, to convince the company that we are somehow valuable enough to keep, if they don’t want to lose their investment. Which is ridiculous, considering how much money they’ve lost on us already.”
“We got the water to Earth, that might show them that some of us are worth aiding,” Yvain said.
I hope that he is right. Our supplies are so limited, we are still attached to Earth by an umbilical cord.
Yvain piloted the ship for me so I wouldn’t be suspiciously sick. I just want Breathe Easy to send us more supplies. We have been reusing some filters, so our air and water are metallic and thick. I cannot believe that Yuda, who worked so hard on changing the filters every day, would fail to see the need for new printer material.
I also finally asked Yvain about the meetings with the anti-union group. We were lying together in my bed – which he has done for a few weeks now, although we are not having sex.
He sighed. “They are very angry, to the point of violence. Their extremist words feed each other’s violence, and I am trying to guide it into other outlets. I physically work them until they can barely stand, and that has helped so far.”
“You are making them stronger?” Horror leached into my question. “If they become physically strong enough, they could overpower the other group.”
“That’s what I’m worried about,” Yvain said. “There are more unionizers than anti-unionizers, and I think they would actually get themselves hurt, possibly even killed, if they took the group on all at once.”
“But what if they try to sneak up and attack the unionizers, one at a time?”
“I know they want to do that. I am trying to convince them that this is dishonorable, and not something that Breathe Easy would want us to do.”
I nodded. I don’t think the tactic will work, but at least there is some guidance for the moment. “What about Payam?” I asked.
Yvain sighed. “I think he is beginning to believe their rhetoric. He didn’t at first, and I told him that I was only there to guide the dangerous chaos in their hearts, but we have been around them for so long now that I think he actually agrees with their morality. He was a soldier, but he was not in the military for very long, spent only a few months on the front line before receiving a dishonorable discharge. He didn’t have time to think about the pain he was being asked to endure for a country that barely put a roof over his head.”
“You’re starting to sound like one of the unionizers,” I said.
“I don’t completely disagree with them,” he replied. “And with the hatred emanating from the anti-unionizers, we might be safer with Samira and her strange preaching.”
“But Chloe wants to use sabotage of our food supplies and filters, which puts us in danger, to convince the company that we are somehow valuable enough to keep, if they don’t want to lose their investment. Which is ridiculous, considering how much money they’ve lost on us already.”
“We got the water to Earth, that might show them that some of us are worth aiding,” Yvain said.
I hope that he is right. Our supplies are so limited, we are still attached to Earth by an umbilical cord.
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