23
UNCLE MADE A BIG PAN of nasi goreng. Melati had wanted gado-gado, but he had no eggs.
“It’s no good without eggs.” He had no krupuk either, and he was getting low on trassi udang, and complained that they would soon have to start eating canteen food.
“What happened to the chickens?”
“The passages aren’t heated anymore, so all that we couldn’t catch died. We only have room to hide a few, so the eggs are very dear.”
“I don’t understand what Allion actually wants to do with the station.”
Uncle shook his head. “You probably understand more than we do. We rarely see them, especially the ones who are in the StatOp command centre. They just sit there and send us their silly messages in gibberish as if we can understand what they’re saying. We’re not allowed to work, and that’s not good f
