Catch Your Breath

Nasir is such an idiot! He failed to separate out the contaminated kelp - again! Eponine spotted the mistake before inspection time, thank God. But still. Half a day's work from the Ocean Group - completely wasted. Mariam begged us to go easy on him, and they are about to have a baby, after all. So, in the end, we made Nasir go without dinner that evening, and then agreed to forget the whole thing. This is bad. Seriously. We live in a harsh world. It's only been a few years, and yet it seems everyone has already forgotten how truly desperate we were when we escaped from Harborside. Ok, sure. This whole "closer than family" vibe we've got going on these days? It's nice, I admit it. But we must remain vigilant. The melon seedlings have not been growing well in the sand this year. And now people are starting to have babies, there are extra mouths to feed... We need to find some additional sources of food.