The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 879

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Chapter 879

One look at the painfully thin Stella and Lucas silenced Weasel’s objections.

“Well, we’ve got it now. I’ll keep an eye out for something Nicole could use.”

He couldn’t take Nicole’s help for granted the way he did Sven’s. Somehow, he hoped to return the favor

His thoughts drifted back to business as he considered the herb seeds.

“Think you can grow these? People always need medicine. If you have extra seedlings, I could trade them he said.

“I’ll try,” Stella replied. “If I need help, I’ll ask someone at the growing center.”

Poppy woke early, excited for her first day. Then she remembered what the job involved, and her enthusiasm dimmed.

After breakfast, she headed out.

Zeph walked her to the door. “Do your best.”

Poppy shouldered her backpack and went downstairs to the growing center.

Nicole settled in with a medical book and Cola beside her, stroking his fur as she read. Zeph went downstairs to collect seabed soil for their potatoes.

The morning flew by. Nicole let lunch cool in the storage space before bringing it out, then waited for Poppy.

Cola could hardly contain himself, but Nicole made him wait, too.

Half an hour later, Poppy peered around the door, looking thoroughly miserable.

“Nicole.”

Nicole was about to ask what happened when a foul smell reached her. She covered her nose.

“Zeph, is your stomach bothering you?”

In a room this small, one fart was enough to make everyone suffer.

Zeph started to object, then realized what was going on. “Oh. Yeah.”

Poppy hovered in the doorway, close to tears, and wouldn’t come in.

Then Nicole understood.

Poppy spent her first morning mixing the maggots’ “feed.” Even with her nose pinched shut, she threw up several times.

She washed her hands and feet over and over before leaving, but couldn’t get rid of the smell. It clung to her clothes, and she didn’t have a spare set.

Nicole drew her inside, shut the door, and took her into the storage space. “It’s alright. A shower and fresh clothes will fix it.”

Poppy scrubbed herself all over and changed.

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The smell was gone, but the morning’s work stayed with her. Even the food on the table couldn’t tempt her.

‘m not hungry.”

Nicole and Zeph both knew what it meant to work for a living. A job could look very different once you actually started doing it..

When Nicole first set out to support herself, people treated her like she was nothing. More than once, she tried in private afterward.

Learning to cope took time.

Poppy chose this job. Now, she had to decide how to handle the unpleasant parts.

Nicole didn’t offer more reassurance, and she wasn’t going to bring up quitting.

If Poppy learned to walk away whenever something unpleasant came up, knowing her family would take care of her, she would struggle when life demanded more.

Her family could teach her values and help shape her character. A job gave her a chance to put those lessons into practice.

At her age, that experience mattered.

Zeph was even firmer on the subject.

An awful smell was nothing compared to an empty stomach. He knew there were starving people desperate enough to eat the very waste that made her sick.