Oct 15, 2007 22:26
Ridley dropped seeds into the soil, operating on automatic, face blank, hands steady. He grasped the edge of a counter as a shockwave hit. A table fell over, planting flats sliding off counters. As the city steadied, he picked everything up quickly and returned to planting, unperturbed.
character: calvin kavanagh,
day 43,
character: ridley parrish,
location: greenhouses/botany labs
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"What can't you do?" Kav grew concerned, Parrishs' head low and eyes closed, mouth set in a grimace of what looked to be pain.
Whatever it was, it couldn't be good.
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He continued in a softer voice, "People are going to be relying on you to get the crops started, to do the research on what is and isn't edible or poisonous on this new planet."
Kav thought a few weeks back to seeing Parrish and that other woman whose name he couldn't remember getting intimate in the artificial rain as he stumbled in with a science team to fix the environmental controls.
"There is life outside here. Dumais." He suddenly remembered the name of that woman he'd seen Parrish with. "Dumais is probably worried sick...does she know you're here?"
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