"You claim to be conjuring matter ex nihilo? That's supposed to still be impossible, it's the entire reason they're doing that star mining thing at Pollux."

"Eppur si muove."

"That's... Hold on. I don't know that one."

"Don't question the gifts, Bennett. Just appreciate them! Do you need anything in turn or is this pure charity?"

"If you could make things out of nothing would you need anything in turn?"

"Experiences, you know. Games and plays and massage or sex, things like that? Anyway-" Three more medications are listed.

"You have divined the traditional arrangement but I'm not in the market at the moment, thanks." Bam bam bam.

"Well you'll have lower levels gratitude, much good may it do you. I could put in a word with Wild? He's a - community leader."

Anyway the doctors want to get to using all this new kit on the line they passed on the way in.

"I don't see why not, thanks."

Someone digs out a red business card. It just says 'Johnathan Wild - 8816'. Presumably the intra-station phone system has fewer digits.

"I'll call him later, or he'll probably hear about you through gossip anyway, it's not like the hospital supply will stay a secret."

"It doesn't need to, I'd be going about this differently if I needed a low profile. Can you think of anywhere else that needs stuff?"

"Lower Levels Food Bank."

"Local Deck Eight Engineering co-op tries to keep the lights and water on, they might have a wish list."

"Washer's aquaponics farm, give him twenty tons of preserved feed and plant food, maybe some new tanks, it'll translate into cheap filets and veggies for years." "Oh, yeah, guy loves his fish farm."

"Any chance of a map? Just, like, name one that exists and I can take it from there."

There's a buzz of consideration, then Kaia - who has followed after a while to see where Cam had gotten to - offers, "The official Station Atlas from '85. Georgio's Genuine Guaranteed Grifter's Guide. Wild Wiki's Lower Levels map. None of those will be really complete but, yeah."

Bam. "And we're looking for which spots?"

The Wiki map is probably the most useful of the three. The official station atlas mostly has transit lines, Security offices, and other official things on it- Plus tourist trap-y zones. Georgio's map is actually part of a pamphlet and is... Difficult to parse, but extremely annotated with a large legend, with symbols like 'unfriendly gang' to 'sell stolen goods here' to 'good spot for begging'. But the Wiki map seems both recent and detailed, as far as the lower levels go- Tons of businesses and districts are named, including all three of the previously mentioned spots. The food bank is easiest to get to- Two more tram stops, right next to the stop.

"Thank you!"

Kaia tags along again. The food bank is less busy than the hospital. The person at the front door says they're "out" before they manage to get a word out.

"Out of what?"

"Food and water rations. Out of both."

"Do you have refillable containers?"

"...Yes?"

"He can fill them. Water, and also food. Big donation."

"Ah. Well we always appreciate donations. We're all volunteers here you know, we don't even get paid except out of surplus donations."

"Cam, common packaged preserved foods everyone will be fine with are Peat cans, Galaxy Blend, juice boxes and sweetened milk, Nutrifruit like I was eating earlier, Bei's brand ice cream, LI-Eat snack bars, Cat Chocolate, instant ramen bowls, and Sami soda. I bet they'd also appreciate sealed water rations in addition to filling the tanks, and tampons and toilet paper and toothbrushes and toothpaste, water filters and purification tablets will last a lot longer than personally filling tanks, all this stuff has a station standard version if my vibes on your limits are correct. Condoms and coffee beans. Water testing strips."

"...That would all be wonderful. Come on in. It's not like we have anything to steal at the moment if it's a trick."

Wag wag wag. "How d'you want all this organized?" he asks, glancing at his computer where he took down Kaia's list.

Food here. Household goods there. They have battered old fridges and freezers here for the ice cream and milk. Here are their water tanks; A bank of twelve of them each about bathtub sized and with a little electronic screen and tap. Can the food bank get some charged power cells? Maybe the slightly illegal single-use kind? They last longer and also are a less tempting target for theft. (The slight illegality is due to an outdated and misguided recycling policy.)

Sure, he will do the slightly illegal kind.