This week with Arlene and Jeff:
...Butchering the meat and moving most of it into the ice cave still took time, though, but the electric cart saved Morales multiple trips trudging through the cave with a heavy slab of meat slung over his shoulder.
Afterward, Morales wiped the cart clean and managed to get the rolled-up hide into it, which made moving the heavy hide inside the cave much easier. As he struggled to move the hide off the cart, Damn, this thing is heavy, and it's going to take forever to process, but Jasmine and I didn't have to strain our guts out to get the hide inside this time. A short distance past their living area, he put the hide against the wall out of the way. I'll work on that before bedtime. A moment later, he pressed a button to check the level of the small, almost tiny, battery that was nestled beneath the handlebars on the cart. There were four bars on the indicator and two of them were lit. "I can't believe a battery this small has done all that work and still has a half charge left."
Jasmine, who was walking by, smiled at her husband. "Wow, that is amazing." A thought struck, and a grin washed over her face. "Of course. I suspect that you just used a prototype that will hit the market on Earth soon. We might well have been chosen as product testers. Without a doubt, that battery is alien technology that the General's people have adapted to become an Earth product. You can bet that he'll make a few million or even more with this new technology," she finished with a chuckle.
"My guess is that a few billion would be closer," Morales said as he popped the battery out before taking it over to plug it into the charger. "Unless there are bugs that we haven't experienced yet, that thing will sell like crazy."...
Have a goodun;
Roust