Feral Human Pt 14

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Jamie was a little shocked to say the least, the last he had seen of this man he was on death's door, now he was demanding coffee in a room that Jamie had no idea how he'd gotten to and acting like nothing had happened.

“Crud. Fine, I'll make it” grumbled Reggie as he slowly stood up, groaning and moved gingerly towards a machine that Jamie had never seen before and seeing his wide eyes explained “Suppose you never seen one of these. It's a universal fountain. Anything water based, it'll make it… Or at least a close approximation of it. You gotta ask it specifically to add caffeine otherwise it gives you decaff sludge” he said his face scrunching in disgust.

Jamie slowly began to take in his room, calming down as he identified things that he could recognise and began to move to the table perching on the chair, still not at ease in Reggie’s presence. The walls were the same bluish silver metal as the rest of the ship, but there were small touches here and there to make it habitable. There were small shelves built into the wall next to the strangely ovoid shaped bed, the table and chairs were plain but functional and comfortable and cupboards either side of the door Jamie supposed was probably a wash room of some kind. He noticed that everything large seemed to have buttons on a screen, with characters in a language he couldn't understand.

Reggie returned with two cups of coffee from the machine and, noticing Jamie's interest in the screens “They're for changing the shape to suit the species” he said, groaning as he sat opposite Jamie, sipping his coffee and sighing with the same tone that you'd expect from someone who hadn't had a drop of water in 3 weeks suddenly drinking a mug of pure glacier water. “Here, watch this” he said as he leaned over and used the slider bar to shuffle through the characters on the screen on the bed until the characters changed to silhouettes, then pressed the largest button.