Chapter Twenty-Five
Tevera thought her shift would never end. She’d been assigned galley duty, and not the kind-of-fun food preparation part of galley duty, either, but the scraping-and-stacking-dirty-dishes-in-the-sonic-cleanser kind of galley duty. But she also knew she had twenty-four hours of shore leave coming up, and that Kriss’s shore leave had begun eight hours earlier. They’d set a meeting place—a shopping complex just on the edge of the spaceport—and she couldn’t wait to show him some of the attractions Try-Your-Luck had to offer that she knew from previous visits—and discover a few more.
More than that, she couldn’t wait to spend time alone with him, away from aunts and uncles and cousins and, especially, Rigel.
Shift over, she hurried to her cabin to change into planetside a
