51. I ate the Food
Kelsey took a deep breath. She said, “John,” calmly and without caring whether she sounded condescending. “That guy on the tape couldn’t get a sample of this man-eating, independent-thinking, autonomous ‘algae,’ so what makes you think you can? We don’t know if isalgae and it could still be present.
She realized that it ate the entire food. The food was eaten because the animal was hungry, and the men were not enough.
If the ship knew that they were back aboard…
