Chapter FiveThe next morning, Mia again found herself alone in the lab. Saret was still traveling and hadn’t sent her his feedback, so she continued learning about the other projects until her stomach rumbled, reminding her that it was time to eat.
Getting up, she stretched and requested a popular Krinar stew for lunch. The intelligent lab building provided it five minutes later, and Mia sat down to eat at one of the floating table-planks.
For some reason, her thoughts kept turning to the conversation she’d had with Korum yesterday and the Resistance fighter she’d helped capture. Leslie was going to undergo mind manipulation, and Mia couldn’t help wondering how much the girl would be changed in the process. She couldn’t imagine someone tampering with her thoughts, feelings, and memories,
