6-131: Mundo Zargo Highport – Boothe’s Tavern and Eatery
Gregar is quiet for a moment, and Lia may suspect he is replaying events in his head.
Presently he says, “It’s pretty straightforward, I crawled into a conduit to fix a line that had been…severed. It was part of the life support recycling; hot fluid, corrosive. While I was in there my shift boss…”, he pauses a moment, and Lia can only guess what additional descriptive phrases are running through his internal monologue, “My shift boss decided it was urgent to restore systems and opened all the cut-off valves. I caught a spray of high-pressure hot acid from a range of about 10cm.”
He shrugs in a ‘such-is-life’ kind of way, and takes a swig of his drink.
Lia is watching him quite closely but not in an intrusive fashion.
“Your ‘boss’ sounds like a Gold painted turd…”
A beat.
“How long were you off work?”
Incidentally, this is my feeble attempt at a Dominion specific insult. My theory is that the Gold ‘Haves’ of the F-Class look down on everyone else, whilst everyone else in the ‘Have nots’ either envies or scorns the F’s.
Therefore I figured something Gold painted might imply someone attempting to appear like the hated Haves.
I’m guessing both sides have various insults for each other…
Sadly this was the best I could do under pressure.