Giles sighed as he got to his feet after plopping down onto the floor of the living area ( Read more... )

Giles still wasn't entirely happy about not being able to fight, but it would do no good to stay down there and get himself killed. He'd let himself be taken back aboard the ship and now he lay on one of the medbay beds, waiting his turn for a healer. Not doctor in this case, most of the ship's medical crew used methods that the doctors in his ( Read more... )

Giles poked and prodded the glop he was apparently expected to consume as food.  He had a natural distrust of unfamiliar things like this, memories of the incident where they'd learned Riley was getting drugged food from the Initiative filtered into his mind. And anyway, it was terribly unappealing.  He wondered if this place even had a decent ( Read more... )

Tea. It is an agricultural product of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Carmellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods. The most widely consumed beverage in all the known worlds. Earth hadn't been the only planet to discover tea. In fact, each planet had a method in going about making tea.

On Stacy, Nura makes her tea ( Read more... )