Marcin stared at Solkan.
"Speaking from experience, Solkan?"Kolvin asked.
"If you want to follow your Craving and that emotional garbage that comes out of it, go ahead," Solkan said."Don't bother staying in the unit, though.That's how you'll get all of us killed."
Marcin blinked."What are you talking about?"
Solkan stared at him like he was an idiot."You know how we all wound up in that Terran prison.Why we were caught."
"We were caught because one of us was following his emotions and not his protocols,” Kolvin said.
Marcin nodded.He knew this.They all did.They all knew what happened.He tried to let go of it, to move forward.
At least that was his goal.
He didn’t want to live in that hate.
Solkan glared at him."We wound up caught and in prison for five years because Bahran made emotional decisions that went against protocols.If he had stuck with the plan, we would not have been stranded on that planet and caught so easily."
"Easy?You call that easy?We did not just lay down for those soldieries," Marcin said.
"We might as well have."
"You seem to be remembering it very differently than I do," Marcin said.
"It doesn't matter how we remember it.The fact is that because of Bahran's emotional responses, we wound up in a prison," Kolvin said.
“Are we going to let that run our existence from now on?”Marcin asked.“Is that what we’re doing?”
“Maybe we should.”
Marcin was going to argue the point, but the outer door opened.
They all jerked toward the door
The main entrance to their apartments opened, and in came Re-lee, Vinka, Gianna and Tina, all carrying bags with markings from different stores.
"What are you boys gossiping about?"Gianna asked.
"Probably whining about the past," Vinka said, her gaze landing squarely on Solkan.
He grumbled under his breath and walked back into his apartment.
Vinka didn't seemed fazed by what she'd said.From the way she reacted, though, Marcin wondered if this was something they had already been discussing or disagreeing on.There was obviously something between them about the topic.
He glanced at Gianna."Did you find clothing like you wanted?"
She nodded."Come on, I'll give you a private showing."
He smiled.
He walked inside the apartment with Gianna, and she turned and looked back at Tina and winked at her.
When the door closed, he turned to her."What was that?The winking?"
"Nothing you need to be worried about."
"I have to ask."
