Winslow and Piotr

Winslow and Piotr

This was the time of day the surface fishers loaded their boats with tackle and gear to head out. Uncle Hogun and his helpers were busy already clearing the tables, the rubble and everything else. I stopped by the Inn to see if I could lend a hand, but Hogun said, there wasn’t all that much left to do. So I stopped by Thunberg’s Café five houses down, got me a cup of coffee, as I loved that stuff and went to my boat.

Just as I reached the mooring spot, Piotr came out my boat wiping his hands on a rag. His robotic tool box walked past him collecting the rag as Piotr threw it away and he smiled at me.” Well as Sid told you, there wasn’t all that much to do, we refurbished your reactor and it’s now good for another 500 years. I upgraded your shield generators with new field coils and your Computronic with a bunch of upgrade programs. That was pretty much it.”

Winslow now appeared as well, shooing his tool box out of the way as he came down the gangway.” Well, we did repair the robotic Torpedo loader and your Forced Energy projectors are no longer jammed and come out smoothly. She got some teeth I tell you, but I suggest you do get them registered if you ever plan to take her off planet.”

“I am not planning to do that.”

“We are all done and you can take her out anytime now.”

“Did you guys actually sleep or work all night?”

“With all the craziness around, we decided to get an early start. Besides we got over eighty boats to fix and the earlier we are done, the earlier we can go home.” Piotr said.

Winslow grinned.”Nothing against your world, but it is getting nippy and I like to be home before your world really turns into a freezer locker.”

“How much do I owe you?”

“The labor is on the house, it was a pleasure to work on such a well kept antique. For part we need to charge or our boss gets grumpy.” He looked at his PDD .” We didn’t replace the missing ISAH Pods since we don’t have any with us, so all in all 5000 credits and we’re even.”

“Are you sure I can’t pay you for the labor or give you a tip or something?”

“No worries our company made good business here and we will be busy for the next six to eight weeks boats and subs.”

I paid the guys, thanked them and went inside.