me to all sorts of good things at her table."
"Do you know what she likes to serve? I appreciate fine coffee myself. But I'm limited of course in what I will offer commercially, by the price I think the market will bear."
"Sylvia served us a Jamaican coffee, but when I priced it I wasn't willing to pay what they wanted it's true. It was about six hundred North American dollars a kilo. I bought a nice Kona estate bean, that tastes as good to me and only cost four hundred a kilo, if you'll buy a twenty five kilo bag of green beans. That's what I make at home and what we brew on board working."
"You're talking about on board ship when you make these trips to the other stations? If you're responsible for other supplies, please consider if my new establishment can be of any assistance. I have to build a new network of contacts and customers here. But all that is just detail if I have what you need. Do you have a job title?"
April laughed and offered her hand. "I'm April Lewis. In a family business we don't have many labels. My brother is the primary owner and I'm the secondary technically, but we don't say President and Vice President. The only title that means anything is when we undock. I'm Master of the Armed Merchant Happy Lewis ."
His eyebrows went up at that. "You mean you're the Captain?"
He accepted her hand and gave it a very gentle squeeze, not really a shake.
"Like this," she said and showed him the custom of touching finger tips to palm. That's how spacers do."
He blushed deeply, surprising her.
"That's" - she hesitated, searching for a word and rejected vulgar - "naughty where you were raised?"
He nodded embarrassed. "But if that's the custom here I'll adapt it. It'll just take a while to untrain my social reflexes."
"It were a military vessel I suppose you'd say Captain. The North Americans do. But it gets confusing because there is a rank of Captain but anyone of any rank is the Captain when they have overall command of a vessel. We don't need all that confusion, so we just say Master."
She had been reading the scrolling screens as they talked, but what had caught her eye was gone. "Shop," she asked, "please show the list of specials again." It ignored her, so he quickly edited it.
"Store, accept inputs for sign requests addressed to shop from any voice. Exclude price change, erasures, shut off and inventory information. Show specials."
The thin screen showed a short list -
Handmade Hungarian Apple Strudel with Almonds/Golden Raisins, guaranteed. 85.00 $NA
Fresh Hawaiian Pineapple - Ripe, whole and guaranteed. 32.00 $NA
Tree Ripe Washington Peach - Large and guaranteed. 6.00@ / 6 FOR 30.00 $NA
Fine Macedonian Milk Chocolate - 1 Kilogram - guaranteed. 11.00 $NA
Sig-Sauer 6mm caseless right handed in titanium with accessories: 3,214.00 $NA*
Rhineman - Howe African Influenza serum genotyped and dated. 35cc- 7 doses - 1,400 $NA*
Intel Pad-on-a-Chip Com multi-compatible with spex and case - 48.00 $NA
Cannabis Caribbean mix potency graded foil pack 200 grams guaranteed. 200.00 $NA *
Pipe tobacco cherry in tin potency graded 200 grams guaranteed. 370.00 $NA *
* Items requiring certification of majority and/or user agreement to respect environmental controls for common cubic and employment restrictions. Hazard warnings test/pass and waiver of liability mandatory. We reserve the right to refuse our trade to anyone for any reason.
"I'd like to send the six peach package and a pineapple to a friend as a gift. Do I have to hire a courier service, or can you deliver?"
"I'll have an automated cart soon, but for a few days I'll be making deliveries in person, at the end of the day if that's OK. I need to learn my way around and I'm hoping to meet my customers in person."
"OK, I'd like it delivered to Sylvia Anderson with a note just saying, ‘Enjoy - April'. You'll find them on E ring, deck seventeen. You can leave it with anyone there." She motioned with her pad she was ready to pay and he pointed
"Do you know what she likes to serve? I appreciate fine coffee myself. But I'm limited of course in what I will offer commercially, by the price I think the market will bear."
"Sylvia served us a Jamaican coffee, but when I priced it I wasn't willing to pay what they wanted it's true. It was about six hundred North American dollars a kilo. I bought a nice Kona estate bean, that tastes as good to me and only cost four hundred a kilo, if you'll buy a twenty five kilo bag of green beans. That's what I make at home and what we brew on board working."
"You're talking about on board ship when you make these trips to the other stations? If you're responsible for other supplies, please consider if my new establishment can be of any assistance. I have to build a new network of contacts and customers here. But all that is just detail if I have what you need. Do you have a job title?"
April laughed and offered her hand. "I'm April Lewis. In a family business we don't have many labels. My brother is the primary owner and I'm the secondary technically, but we don't say President and Vice President. The only title that means anything is when we undock. I'm Master of the Armed Merchant Happy Lewis ."
His eyebrows went up at that. "You mean you're the Captain?"
He accepted her hand and gave it a very gentle squeeze, not really a shake.
"Like this," she said and showed him the custom of touching finger tips to palm. That's how spacers do."
He blushed deeply, surprising her.
"That's" - she hesitated, searching for a word and rejected vulgar - "naughty where you were raised?"
He nodded embarrassed. "But if that's the custom here I'll adapt it. It'll just take a while to untrain my social reflexes."
"It were a military vessel I suppose you'd say Captain. The North Americans do. But it gets confusing because there is a rank of Captain but anyone of any rank is the Captain when they have overall command of a vessel. We don't need all that confusion, so we just say Master."
She had been reading the scrolling screens as they talked, but what had caught her eye was gone. "Shop," she asked, "please show the list of specials again." It ignored her, so he quickly edited it.
"Store, accept inputs for sign requests addressed to shop from any voice. Exclude price change, erasures, shut off and inventory information. Show specials."
The thin screen showed a short list -
Handmade Hungarian Apple Strudel with Almonds/Golden Raisins, guaranteed. 85.00 $NA
Fresh Hawaiian Pineapple - Ripe, whole and guaranteed. 32.00 $NA
Tree Ripe Washington Peach - Large and guaranteed. 6.00@ / 6 FOR 30.00 $NA
Fine Macedonian Milk Chocolate - 1 Kilogram - guaranteed. 11.00 $NA
Sig-Sauer 6mm caseless right handed in titanium with accessories: 3,214.00 $NA*
Rhineman - Howe African Influenza serum genotyped and dated. 35cc- 7 doses - 1,400 $NA*
Intel Pad-on-a-Chip Com multi-compatible with spex and case - 48.00 $NA
Cannabis Caribbean mix potency graded foil pack 200 grams guaranteed. 200.00 $NA *
Pipe tobacco cherry in tin potency graded 200 grams guaranteed. 370.00 $NA *
* Items requiring certification of majority and/or user agreement to respect environmental controls for common cubic and employment restrictions. Hazard warnings test/pass and waiver of liability mandatory. We reserve the right to refuse our trade to anyone for any reason.
"I'd like to send the six peach package and a pineapple to a friend as a gift. Do I have to hire a courier service, or can you deliver?"
"I'll have an automated cart soon, but for a few days I'll be making deliveries in person, at the end of the day if that's OK. I need to learn my way around and I'm hoping to meet my customers in person."
"OK, I'd like it delivered to Sylvia Anderson with a note just saying, ‘Enjoy - April'. You'll find them on E ring, deck seventeen. You can leave it with anyone there." She motioned with her pad she was ready to pay and he pointed
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