09. Selling berries
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As usual canteen was filled with people. No one paid attention to her until cook that saw her basket didn't almost start to cry.
Real fruits.
She rolled her eyes and covered the basket. "Hundred a pound."
The cook had no time to answer as she heard voice behind. "I'll pay two hundred a pound."
In wonder Fran looked at young man in military uniform and blinked back. "Isn't canteen in military hands?"
"No." He didn't explain anything further and pointed at the basket. "Deal?"
Fran didn't care who buys it. More money for her. "Deal."
The cook could only look at the fresh fruits with red eyes getting out of reach and glanced at the woman. "Next time, I'll pay you two hundred."
She was curious. "Why is no one here going out to gather these?"
He blankly glanced at her. "Huh?"
The cook and military officer saw that she really meant it and were stunned. "Zombies..."
She couldn't understand. "So?"
Swing her looking at them calmly they realized she really was not scared. The officer patted her shoulder. "You should come to tasking office. There are many tasks you can do and get special points or even special help if needed."
"I will. Let me eat one of these things as my body need some nutrition. And could you please tell me where is tasking office?" She looked at his eyes and saw pleasant surprise.
Are all women in this world so weak?
But Lucia was not that weak. Maybe she can take her with her. Steven is good as well.
Three people are less noisy as whole crowd. But only if she finds them.
Just as she thought about it, the cook gave weighting scale and to his wonder there were almost ten pounds of blackberries.
With whole stack of money in her pocket she ate food and glanced literally at the building right next to the bank. It was huge building.
She presumed it was or some kind of postal station or maybe big store in past.
With a sigh she ate the food as it was just nutritional, but that's it. Not as tasty as their food. Or is it maybe the spoken mutations already? Never mind, it is important to get nutrition for the body.
Tasty food, she will have when she once in future gave her own garden. But that is far.
Now she must see the task office and find group to go with.
Going alone is stupid idea. Today she could kill few at time, but sometimes zombies are gathering in larger numbers and she won't be able to handle it alone.
So with curiosity she walked towards the building, followed by big man and a woman.
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