Settling in Permanently?

                Alrick and Jessie made a late-night raid of the packhouse kitchens. He ensured there was a note left for Bonnie. It apologized for the dishes in the sink and hardship from the missing food. With their food haul in their hands, the pair returned to the Alpha apartment. The food decorated the coffee table in the sitting room. Alrick looked at it, then at Jessie. “Should be get your things? Or eat first?”

                Jessie made that conflicted face. “Why don’t we get it now? Then eat. I don’t know about you, but I’ll feel stuffed from all this. Once that happens, I don’t think I’ll want to move.” She saw Alrick get an odd look on his face. “The last time you looked like that. You contradicted me.” She remembered now that he’d said it bought