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She was so excited!

Also Hungry.

It was so nice to be here again!

The treats were coming!

This was one of her favorite ports besides her creche port where crew and her were from.

Tasty tasty treats!

They were always super nice, there were adorable (and delicious) little things here to greet her.

But most importantly of all besides how friendly and solid the mass picked up here was for trade in other places was the food!

Tunie was so excited to finally get to have some of her favorites! It had been five whole trips since she could have some of her favorite flavors and over twenty-two since she last got to have the special treats that they only really had right here!

There was of course other nice things about the port, they tried to clean her up a bit.

Went over her f’teropods gentle nice like! Spewing her down with nice hot plasma to clear all the strange little tiny things that liked to stick to her when she scooted through the awful cramped tiny narrow pit of dark awfulness!

It was a bit like what she did when she needed to snuggle her crew and make sure they were clean!

But not as good as a proper bath of course, or even as nice and refreshing as brushies but she knew the port was doing its best!

No the best thing about this port was definitely that there would be lots of tasty treats!

Then her crew would let her know what bits needed to be moved out of her holds and what bits were going to go into her holds and then there would be so many tasty tasty treats and she would get to eat all of them!

She could barely wait for the strings of rich sweet and zesty little helices. She could always taste the big forest things that had been slain and spun into thread for her so that she could pull them through all of her halls and eat every bit of them at once everywhere inside her.

Technically it was not the most nutritious or richest of grist but most important was that it definitely was some of the tastiest! And she had been an extra polite ship and not eaten any of the fluffy adorable treats that crowded around her this time!

That meant she deserved extra helpings of treats!

Cheers and hooray!

After she started eating then her crew would go off and do strange crew things far away and out of reach of her talking. But the port here was super nice and very helpful! So that was not even a problem like it was some places!

She would not even be lonely without a crowd of ships nearby to compare port gossip with!

This port could speak ship better than most ports did and would know how to give her extra treats and things if she asked.

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Which she of course always did ask for.

Sadly sometimes they were stingy and did not bring treats quickly when she asked for extra though.

That made Tunie kind of mad with them.

But most of the time the port was just the best and oh her motiles were all jumpy inside waiting to start stripping down her delicious delicious treats for spooling and distribution and upscaling!

Oh this was just going to be the best!

But first Tunie had to be an extra special patient ship. Even though she was so close and she could SEE them bringing the spools of treats closer she was not to go rushing over to it to get it into her holds faster.

Doing that had taught her it did not actually end in her getting fed faster! Which was an awful discovery each of the three times she tried it!

She had to wait right here where she was supposed too.

Otherwise she’d wait even LONGER.

She would be a good ship even though all her f’teropods fluffed and quivered with need to push her to the food, or at least scoop up one of the tasty fluffies.

No she would sit and be good.

But Still...

The silly port was doing that thing they did every time. Wrapping up a big giant bag of fabric and stuff and filling it with a stupidly immense amount of things so that they could pretend they were inside a bit silly ship bubble of air.

Tunie had no idea why the port did that every time. It was valuable time they could be spending feeding Tunie. It was the only port that did it too.

But then again Tunie could forgive them for being silly and slow and taking forever because at least this port did not have her dealing with traffic, or awful close-in-ness that blocked her escape vectors, or secret monsters pretending to be a port so that they could lay eggs in her eyes, or even worst of all no grist at all to feed her despite spending all the potency to slow down and visit them!

That was the worst port ever.

Tunie had stopped once when she was first getting started and the port went missing while she was slowing down!

She had been so hungry afterwards!

Worst port ever!

She did not even care that it and all the ports around it had been eaten by cats!

Stupid port deserved to be eaten by horrible terrible cats for going missing when she was slowing down.

No this was not that bad all things considered.

Tunie could be patient.

But she really really really wanted those treats.

Oh she hoped the silly port would hurry up and finish the silly bag full of stuff they were doing so she could start eating!

Oh she could see them bringing the spools closer!

But no she was a good ship and would only flutter her f’teropods a little in anxious anticipation.