The Beacon

The beacon was still hidden somewhere on the ship. If they could deactivate it, the hungry humans would stop asking for food. Captain had been responding less and less since they'd taken her meat. When she did speak, it tended to be in repetition. They opened all the crew lockers in the bunk room and found some tea bags and a little chocolate. The wilted, untended hydroponics garden yielded several handfuls of cilantro and some radishes. Engineer took much greater care cooking these together on the hot engine block so as not to scorch them. Radishes and fungus brought in more bad reviews, but tea and chocolate earned their first two star rating. Juke