"Miss Serena, are the vegetables grown at the base for sale?"
"They are. There's a villa behind the base's mall that specializes in selling vegetables and fruits. They also have rice, flour, oil, salt, liquor, and other beverages. However, most of the people who shop there are researchers and the upper echelons of management."
"But I'm telling you, the things there are really expensive. I wouldn't recommend buying anything. A single head of greens costs thirty points."
"Is it run by the administration?"
Serena Lynch nodded. Evelyn understood. 'So that's why the base mall doesn't sell vegetables or grain,' she thought. 'The administration has monopolized the business.'
She decided to invite Officer Graham and his friends for a meal. She could use it as an excuse to bring out supplies from her space, claiming she'd bought them. She wasn't a sucker; there was no way she'd waste her points like that.
