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// The Grand Tour 
// Story: Twilight Accidentally Teleports To Some Crazy Rimworld Colony. 
// by LegendaryHumanLeatherHat 
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***Hour 10, Day 2 of Jugust

"And this is our prosthetics bench, where we make limbs to give our colonists." Jon said, pointing at the rectangular table.

"You mean to tell me that people get injured here so frequently that you thought it was necessary to construct a production table just to counter it?" Twilight inquired.

"Yeah, we even have another one for our animals. My girlfriend's dog has only one good leg left." Jon said, snickering.

"How is that even possible?! Kind the buck kind of stuff happens here?!" Twilight yelled.

"Well, yesterday. Our base got attacked by elephants. They stormed in the front gate and destroyed our solar panels, before they died from bleeding to death by their bullet wounds. Unfortunately, we were so busy repairing and rebuilding, we forgot to butcher the carcasses. Literal tons of food perished in the heat." Jon said.

Twilight grimaced at the gruesome depiction. "I take it you are all omnivores, correct?" Twilight asked. Jon nodded.

"I'm getting the impression that you are having trouble producing food. Have you tried growing vegetables?"

Jon groaned. "You think we haven't thought of that? The soil here is so dry and toxic, we wouldn't be able to grow anything."

"Have you tried making hydroponics?" Twilight asked.

Jon stared at the wall. "Well, we considered it, but we don't have enough steel to build the basins, and the cost of maintaining a sunlamp would be too taxing on our limited power supply. Not to mention the amount of effort it would take to fertilize this poisonous earth would not be worthwhile, especially since we haven't even attempted to collect any seeds or cultivate the local plants yet."

"You seem well educated. How could someone like you stand to live in a place like this?" Twilight asked, glancing at all the bizarre machines in the room.

Jon snickered. "To be honest, I prefer this place to the urbworld I used to live on."

"Urbworld? Wait, you used to live on another planet?! How could you even live long enough to travel from one habitable planet to another?!"

Jon smiled proudly. "Funny you should mention that. I'm actually 721 years old. Although I was frozen for most of it." Twilight shook her head, that was a question for another day.

"What in that door over there?" she asked, pointing at the large double door in the end of the hallway.

Jon laughed nervously. "Uhh... That's our prison."

Twilight tensed up. "Prison? For who?"

"For the people who attack us."

"Why would anyone attack you?" Twilight asked nervously.

"Because they want our shit."

"Can't you convince them to just leave you alone? Wait, why do you even hold on to them in the first place?"

Suddenly, a dark thought entered Twilight's mind. "You... You don't hurt them, do you?"

Jon started sweating. "Well, I don't personally."

"What do the other colonists do to the captives?" Anger was growing in her voice.

"Well, you know how I said it was hard to get food?" Twilight's heart stopped.

"You don't..." Twilight's eyes were wide. Jon sat down on his ostrich leather armchair and scratched his neck.

Twilight's legs started to wobble and she grabbed the side of the marble table. "That's so..." She started to retch, but she hasn't eaten in 24 hours, so nothing came up.

"You... Lock them away... So you can... You can... Keep them fresh..."

"Hey, a man's got to eat, you know." Jon was taking offense. He couldn't understand what the problem was. He was here for so long that the thought of eating another person was nothing more than a necessity. Something he could justify.

A string of bile exited Twilight's mouth and splatted on the smooth stone floor. "That's so... Horrible." Tears started pouring down her face. Her breathing was becoming pained. "How?! How could you do something like this?! How could you treat a fellow human being like livestock?!"

Jon gave Twilight a stern look. "Look, you have no right to tell us what we can and can't do. This is the Rim, there are no rules here. Only the strong can survive. You need to toughen up."

Twilight stumbled away. "I need to lay down..."