"Good to know my cooking skills didn't atrophy back when I had too much to do to have time to cook for myself," Garth'zel says wryly.

The kid will eventually learn to tell when he's hungry. Not that Garth'zel knows how long that will take beyond a while.

The food's soon served and Garth'zel settles in to work on his own share of it. "I changed our destination in the navicom," he says after he's eaten some of his food. "We'll come out of hyperspace tomorrow so I can get some things before we actually reach Bothawui."