I'm using this time to gather my thoughts while taking a pause between bites of roasted kirim. Or perhaps I should say burned. No, it should be more like charred to within a meter of its postlife. I'm sure the cooking staff meant well by making an attempt to add an exotic item to our humdrum mix of over-the-top dishes we've consumed for centuries. But I can tell they lack the proper experience with rarities from off-world to actually make them edible. Kirim is a small delicacy, only to be found in the Tapani Sector. I’m not sure who was possessed by the idea of importing such a dish here to Deiu. It was probably a sudden whim of the Prestat. He’s been given to so many of them recently...most likely to impress his latest acquisition. He’s taken up another courtesan, a little gilded slipper