Feeding Time

Who: Amber
Where: Floor 13
When: During her Sentence
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Amber curled up on her bunk and faced away from the inside of her cell.
She stared at the metal mesh keeping her in and ignored her cellmate.
Her cellmate had fiery red hair and shocking blue eyes and was
deceptively wiry.
  "Come on. It's not all that bad being in here." She stood up and
stroked Amber's hair "There are worse places on the ship to be... The
mini-smeg's room for one." Amber winced as the prisoner insulted her
fathers clone, but she had already decided through a series of
hypothetical questions that her being the daughter of the Security
Chief and Acting Captain becoming general knowledge was not a good
thing. Amber rolled off the bunk and sat down at the table.
  "I'm innocent. It wasn't me. They know it wasn't my fault but
they wanted a scapegoat so locked me in here. I miss my family and
John." She sighed and stared at a peculiar kink in the grating in the
table.
  "They are a part of the god awful crew that put us in here."
  "It wasn't their fault. It was the security chief and that lot.
My friends knew what happened to me. I was under someone Else's
influence." Amber said with hate in her voice. "And if it takes me to
the end of time I will kill him." She slammed her fist onto the tale
and flinched as she lifted it up with checked marks on it.
  "Heh heh heh. That's the spirit." Her cell mate said and
grinned. "Lets get something barely edible."  The red head said
indicating they should go to the canteen before it stopped serving. "So
what did they lock you up in here for anyway?"
  "Murder and crimes against what's left of the Space Corps.... You?" Amber was warming to her strange companion.
  "Grand theft, arson and murder. Stacie Flash at your service."
Her eyes lit up as she mentioned fire and she did a big sweeping bow as
she said her name.
Amber poked the tray of what could have resembled something that might
have resembled food in a previous life. Scooping up a mouthful of the
grey tasteless muck she let it drop off the spoon with a disgusting
plop.
  "I can't eat this.... this.... stuff." She said.
  "Good. Then I will." Said a passer by and took her try off her.
  "What do you think you are doing tubby? That was Amber's" Flash said standing up. The room fell silent.
  "Drop it Stace. I wasn't going to eat it anyway...." Amber said
glaring at the tubby woman who had taken her food tray realizing that a
few days ago the woman would have probably been in the medi-bay by now.

  "She needs to pay!"
  "I don't want any trouble..." Amber said pushing Flash back into her seat.
  "I'll give you trouble...." The tubby woman grinned evilly and walked off.<To Be Continued>