Both me and Master started eating and I used the fork and knife provided, Master however ignored them. He didn’t know how to use them, the food was the best I’ve ate since I left my home planet. Funny enough there was no other customers around us so it was like we got our own private room to eat. I told master this and he laughed saying that they would be pissed off if they heard that, but he agreed with me. I asked about something that I just thought about since we were eating near garbage.
“Master? Were does all the trash that the empire makes go?” I asked.
“Well the stuff we cant reuse is dumped into the ocean, but in waters outside Imperial waters. Also they pick somewhere with an ocean current going away from our waters.” he told me.
“Okay so what stuff is recycled?” I continued.
“Re cycled? Different way of saying it that I’ve never heard but I know what you mean.” he replied. I didn’t mean to use a word they forgot about but luckily he didn’t care.
“Things like metal, some plastics but not all and some more stuff. The resources that are not commonly available so it wasteful to toss them, even if in cases like metal where they will melt whatever it was down and reuse it. Of course people don’t really care to save reusable materials so the government pays people to bring in reusable materials. Its not much but it works, when I was homeless that was a way I could earn some money.” he finished.
We both continued eating till we both finished, that was the best food either of us had eaten, for me that was better than any rations on the ship that brought me to this planet. After we finished Master got the bill and payed, I didn’t even ask what the price was. We got up to leave and no one looked at us, they were happy that we were leaving, but before we left Master had to rub it in to the manager.
“Hey, biggus dickus thank you for serving us.” he told him. I tried not to laugh and hold it in as even I got the joke. The manager was furious and followed us as we left.
“Haha, your so funny you uneducated rat. Leave before I get traps.” he told us as both master and I laughed. We walked out to the sidewalk and I followed master and we continued to walk around till we found a small park with actual grass and dirt on the water city. It was large for this city, the size of 6 buildings or so and we sat on the benches. I started coughing for a minute until I stopped, probably the food. Then both me and master were surprised when a stranger walked up to us and greeted us nicely, she was dressed modestly for the area.
“Hello there I’m Hannah, its nice to see people from outside this city come to visit.” she told us. She was tall at 6, 5 and her blond hair was clean unlike mine. I was nervous and said nothing while Master responded cautiously “What do you want, its suspicious that your being nice to us.”.
“Okay I know most people here hate you but I don’t think like that.” she responded.
“You expect me to believe you?” Master responded.
“No but still you can talk to me, I’m not going to hurt you.” she continued.
“Fine, what is it you want?” Master told her.
“What is your reason for coming here, I’m not complaining about you two I just want to know.” she finished before sitting at the bench next to us.
“Work, I had to transport some cargo and now I have to wait a while till the return cargo is ready.” Master told her.
“Whats your name, ill tell you my last name if you tell me yours.” she told him.
“Dan” was Masters response.
“Your last name?” she asked.
“You never specified my last, but ill tell you. Its Oleary, now yours?” he responded sounding annoyed at this conversation.
“I’ve heard of you, your rise up society is very incredible. I’m Hannah Slavov.” she told him.
“Odd last name, never heard of it but it sounds like my slaves name. And don’t ask I’m not telling you hers.” Master finished. This was a painful and awkward conversation to listen to plus I was never addressed at all by her once. Master was really not trying here, his hope was probably that she would run off if he showed no interest in talking.
“Your slave has a name like mine? Interesting, ill leave now since you clearly haven't changed your tone. Here’s the address of the gallery I run with my business partner if you want to stop by.” she told Master as she left and gave him a business card. He actually took it, I was surprised.
“That was weird and painful but that bitch is gone, good job staying silent. I wanted to reveal as little as possible to her, this card will help me out later. Lets go back to the boat for the day before she come back.” he told me as we left.
