Chapter 8The food shop across the street from the Medi-Center was almost empty when Kai entered it. Usually most of the students and faculty gathered there at lunchtime. It was one of the few places that the student-teacher relationships relaxed enough so that everyone felt comfortable. Kai glanced at her chronometer. It was well before the dinner hour, the slowest time for the eatery. Most of the students were either back at their studies or on their way home for the day. There would be more customers a little later as meetings and evening classes broke or people finished whatever they’d been working on. There were very few who ate here for their dinner.
Caryl and Nissa were giggling at a shared joke at a table near the door as Kai walked past them and slid into a seat at the long table
