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 He tells the other guy he’s almost out of bleach and the other guy says he can siphon some from his container so he has enough for the shift.

“It might be a good idea to start bringing reserve cartridges,” the other guy says.

“What do you mean?” he asks.

“Just like a second bottle.”

He laughs. “Reserve cartridges.”

“Yeah, you know,” the other guys says, “so we don’t have to do on-site resource transfers.”

He laughs again. “You’re good at that.”

“I remember a guy joking to me about how many of those terms they have in the military. Like an air assault really just means they took a helicopter.”

“Nice,” he says.

When he takes the trash out to the dumpster the bag leaks and drips across the carpet and tile floors of the library. He finds the other guy and tells him and the other guy says, “Oh, you need an emergency salvage operation? I got you.”

“Don’t forget your on-site resource carrier,” the other guy says. A bucket.