Chapter 27
Seetha keyed in the code to lock her cabin door, the first time she’d done that on this whole trip. At the moment, she couldn’t imagine she’d ever been concerned about having privacy from her friend.
“Are you okay, Les?”
The plurapod slowly floated up from the bottom of hir cabin, surfacing for a second before settling at Seetha’s eye level.
“I am better now.”
“The two of them, well, all of us humans, shouting like that can be hard to deal with.”
“It was not the shouting, though I do not enjoy that. Plurapods are not behaving honorably in any part of this. It is hard not to feel responsible.”
Seetha moved one of the chairs beside the glass wall and sat with a sigh.
“You’re not responsible. How could you be? You didn’t even know about any of this.”
“Your words make sense
