300 Smells Like Home

[Supply staff of the First Battalion, please bring in the rations synthesized by the food processors from Terminus and the water barrels. Get these people fed and watered as quickly as we can, I don't think they've eaten in days, packed in that tiny hold.] Max ordered as they walked.

Nico got off the ramp at the third level and turned to walk through the crowd, much less tightly packed on this level than the first two had been, stopping only when she reached a middle-aged woman with a stroller.

"Commander Keres, meet Sasha, Sandy, Sara, and Sal." Nico introduced the four children, two sets of twins, to Max once they arrived.

"Hello, little ones." Max greeted them, and the four children waved happily at him snacking on shared portions of a protein bar that their caretaker had given them.

Two were boys and two were girls, but all had blonde hair, and the older sisters had a very familiar style of ringlets curled into hers.