She added ropes, lights, and other things needed to explore caves the right way. Tei’Burgton insisted they take emergency beacons with them, and Shima agreed, but they were the kind that transmitted when turned on and not before. Shima herself had insisted upon that. She had often taken one with her when hunting on Harmony and prided herself upon never using it. She would not start now. For five days, Shima and the others explored the caves along the coast and just inland. Shima did enjoy it, but that wasn’t why she went. It was for Chailen and Sharn, a small beginning on the debt she owed them. She didn’t bring up her reasons of course; they were family and would be insulted, but Shima felt that she had let Chailen down this past orbit. By letting herself fall into a funk, she had put a greater burden than necessary upon her sib and her mate at the worst possible time. Their world, like that of so many others, had ended when the Merki came. Chailen had lost her father, her mate barely made a living for them by scavenging and trading trash for food, and on top of all that her sib had been suicidal and needed constant watching.
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