Kate shifts in her chair, tilting her head and fixing Captain Jones with a cool eye.
"Are you... advocatin' letting people starve, Captain?" she asks, coolly. "I've not been keepin' tabs on people, or what they do. People bring food here, people come here to prepare it, people eat. That's how I've been runnin' it.
Not everyone here has skills beyond a sound body and willingness to work. If we run into trouble later, with theft, then we deal with it. But so far it's been a month and a half, and we haven't had trouble yet.
How do you propose to keep people fed if they've got nought to trade, other than themselves?"
It's an implication she hopes he - and the others - understand. She's a young woman, and it's a fact of life that she's achingly aware of. What women do to survive, if things get that desperate. If people start withholding supplies to get an upper hand.
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"Are you... advocatin' letting people starve, Captain?" she asks, coolly. "I've not been keepin' tabs on people, or what they do. People bring food here, people come here to prepare it, people eat. That's how I've been runnin' it.
Not everyone here has skills beyond a sound body and willingness to work. If we run into trouble later, with theft, then we deal with it. But so far it's been a month and a half, and we haven't had trouble yet.
How do you propose to keep people fed if they've got nought to trade, other than themselves?"
It's an implication she hopes he - and the others - understand. She's a young woman, and it's a fact of life that she's achingly aware of. What women do to survive, if things get that desperate. If people start withholding supplies to get an upper hand.