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GONE TO SEA : World of Sea : Science Fiction : Part 16

GONE TO SEA

by

De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

WORK IN PROGRESS (Word count unknown at this time)

copyright 2018

Writing started 2005

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Molly was beside him in an instant, a stout forged steel spanner in her hand.  She slapped his hand away from the counter where he was attempting to reach past the sanitary shields protecting the donuts and twists.

She and Donal, one of her crew, pushed him away from the booth with muscles toughened by months of climbing around the station's understructure inspecting for and repairing problems.  Her eyes harder than the steel of her wrench, Molly stated, “Mister Hored! You know that what you just said is totally false!  Our flour is made from natural local sources.  The kids who developed it tried to give you the whole process.  What did you call it, to their faces?  

“I'll tell you.  You refused it outright and called it worthless kiddie crap!  You also demanded that they never bother you again.  They have not.”

Mister Hored stopped struggling as he realized that he was now surrounded by hostile and armed maintenance crew.  He curled a lip and replied with confidence, “I run this station's Commissary!  My Contract gives me the sole right to sell any sort of food or other goods.”

Molly pulled a small tablet computer from a hard protective pouch on her belt and clicked it on.  In a few selections, she produced Public Services Under Contract: Commissary.  She made a few more selections. The screen showed the title page of Mister Hored's contract.  Across it was a search box with the word exclusive highlighted.  Just under the word was the legend, Search key not found.

Molly held the computer out for him to see.  Smiling like a Strong's shark, she commented, “You have already lost two lawsuits for trying to restrict other people from selling things in competition with you and this is why.  You do not have the exclusive right to sell or distribute anything.

“The school has paid the station rent for our Bake Sale space.  What we are selling, aside from station supplied vitamin C, thymine and lysine, is wholly from native sources.  The nutritional content of our goods has been determined and certified by the Bio-safety and Nutrition lab.  Now go back to your store and sell what is yours to sell.”

Her men escorted Mister Hored away.

Shortly, Mister Torres came and joined the cheerful mob of shoppers.  He bought a few things to munch while he watched demonstrations.  He paid cash for several of the baking kits.  He retreated, examining the labels carefully.

Pele looked up from her desk where some students were handing in parchment documents for examination.  Mister Torres looked over Pele's shoulder and remarked, “Are those papers already graded?  It looks like they are already marked.”

Tham Wing looked up from the conference and replied, “Of course they are.  We assemble committees that had nothing to do with the subject of the paper in question.  Then, we go over it and mark it for presentation and clarity.  We also mark any grammar errors that we find.  After that we conference with the author to make sure that things are as good as we can make them and hand them in.  Pele is our final judge.  Not only is the author graded, so are we for our conference work.”

Pele smiled at Tham and said, “Good explanation, Tham.  Now, Mister Torres, I would guess that you are not here to admire our grading system.  Is there a problem?”

Mister Torres pulled a somewhat comic frown, making it clear what he thought of what he was about to say.  “Not really.  Mister Hored as filed a complaint that you gave him the flour process over a month ago and that you should not be selling it.  Did you do it?”

Pele got a sour look and replied, “We tried.  He refused it flatly, sight unseen.  Here, take a look.”  She pulled her tablet computer from a drawer of her desk and activated it.

As she was entering the search, Pele explained, “Three of my students found the possibility in some station reports that they were looking over for something else.  They worked out the process and presented it for a project.  They wanted to donate their find to the Commissary for the good of the station and went to give the whole process to Mister Hored.  They took their phones along and recorded the interview.”

Mister Torres watched the recorded meeting in silence and simply shook his head.  Then he took out his phone and linked to the interview before saying, “That was just about the rudest thing that I have heard since we got here, and I have been having to listen to Marcus Angerson.  More to the point, it absolutely destroys his claim that you gave him the process.  I will have a word with him about making false claims.”

Tham looked thoughtful and asked, “Wheat takes up an awful lot of the agronomy space, doesn't it?”

At Mister Torres' nod, Tham forged ahead, “Our flour is actually better for people than wheat flour is.  You could have wheat production scaled way back.  We could replace the wheat with our flour products.  That would free up agronomy space for other vital crops.

“We also get four major sugars as a side effect of the processing.  We obtain fructose, glucose, sucrose and dextrose.  A minor alteration of the main process yields a pretty pure starch that can be made to mimic potato or corn starch.”

Pele nodded and said, “Good idea, Tham.  We have all those kids that have already graduated high school, thanks to the early testing.  We could put them onto split days, making up flour and such for half of the day and being staff the rest.”

Mister Torres pursed his lips and said thoughtfully, “Pele, would you please send my office your complete menu with preparation methods and the nutritional analysis for all of your foodstuffs?”

Pele shrugged, “Fairly big job but we will be happy to do it.  I am pretty sure that everything is already covered by our station patents.  We will be happy to talk licensing or other means of profitable sharing.”

Sniffing the air and grinning, Mister Torres said, “We may need to set you up a grocery store or restaurant of some kind.  Your galley smells great!”

Tham suggested, “Why don't you come over and sample some of our regular lunch?  You missed our breakfast but there may be some leftovers.” The two retreated in the direction of the galley.  Pele, busy with her desk work, didn't notice when the thoughtful Mister Torres left the dock with a fair-sized batch of papers and a bag added to his load.

Shortly after he was gone, Molly and some of the children from the bake sale came down the dock stairs.  They were carrying loads.  One came over to Pele's desk and dropped off a heavy box of the station credit coins and a long written list of the day's sales.  Pele checked the total and nearly fainted.

She began carefully counting up the multitude of coins and totaling the personal checks.  When she looked up, the whole school was packed tight around her desk.  They wore jubilant expressions.  Pele wrote everything up as a deposit slip for the school's account and shook her head in disbelief.

“You guys sold everything?  Even the cooking tool kits?”

A proud Banja put an arm around Sancha and declared, “And the cooking oils that we were using.  All that we had left were our own tools, ovens and stoves.  We even got an order for a custom made dining set. They want a table with a crushed shell inlaid top and matching chairs.  We had an offer on the booth itself but we turned that down. We just might need it again.”

Up in the station's Executive Council suites, Mister Torres was facing his colleagues on the Council.

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