*** Hour 9, Day 3 of Jugust
Twilight sat at the dinner table. All of her new comrades already ate their meals and went on with their days. She stared at the simple meal in front of her. It was a hunk of human leg. After going almost 3 days without eating, it almost looked appetizing. This did nothing make Twilight feel terrible about herself. She lifted the fork and knife with her shaky magic. It took her 30 seconds to cut off one peace. She was sweating profusely out of every part of her body. The fork came towards her mouth. Disgust, shame, guilt and despair was all she feel. Her jaw was trembling. "I'm... Sorry... Nameless man..." She bit down on the meat. It tasted delicious. She hated how wonderful it tasted. She hated herself. She wished she was the one getting chopped up instead. After about 45 minutes, long after the food got cold, she finally finished. She looked at her empty plate. "I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." She cried for hours.
*** Hour 13, Day 3 of Jugust
Twilight has been hiding in her room for almost the entire time she's been on this planet. Her dazed condition for the most part, went unnoticed by the colonists.
"I still think we should put her to work, otherwise she's just eating our food for nothing." Rickie said, while chopping up granite chunks for building material.
Clam nodded her head. Her new bionic eye was the only thing lighting up the room. "We should at least make her haul or clean. You don't think she's incapable of dumb labor, do you?"
Jon chimed in. "Actually, while I was getting to know her, she seemed to give off the impression that she was very intellectual person. Maybe we could have her researching new technologies for us."
Rickie laughed. "You're just saying that so you can do something else. I seriously don't think this alien child can be smarter than any of us."
Jon spit a tooth out of his mouth. It wasn't his. "Actually, she's 27. And apparently she's also royalty where she comes from."
Rickie turned off her machine and walked over to twilight's dorm. "No wonder she's such a whinny cunt."
She slammed on the door. "Hey, purple! If you're going to be staying here and eating our food, you better be pulling your weight! Jon has some schematics he wants you to look at! Get out here!"
*** Hour 16, Day 3 of Jugust
Twilight's hair was messy with strings popping up from every angle. She looked at the blueprints laid out on the table. "What the buck is this supposed to be?" She asked without any care for Jon's feelings.
Jon scowled. "Well, it's a design for a ground penetrating scanner. We couldn't find enough ore inside the limited hunks of sandstone scattered around the region, so I thought, maybe we could dig deep down into the ground if we just knew where the ore pockets are."
Twilight sighed. "I'll look it over and see if anything stands out as a flaw to fix."
Jon walked to the door. "Thanks, Twi." Twilight winced at the nickname. It reminded her of her friends. How she'll almost certainly never see them again.
"Oh, and by the way, I found a cargo pod of some beats a couple hours ago. Nobody here likes beats, so you can eat all of them. They would probably last you about a week."
Twilight wheezed out a pained laugh. She wouldn't have to eat the flesh of another sapient creature again. At least not for a while. "Thank you, Jon."