#CHAPTER 134: Auxiliary

Sarah POV A few minutes with Google had backed up Melissa’s assertion that the Beta Auxiliary League did good work. They had three primary activities: college scholarships based on merit and need, free vocational workshops, and free daycare for parents who were going to school. Melissa was going to talk about setting up a series of workshops for developing online skills, and I was given a seat at one of the head tables. Lunch in the hotel’s main conference room was the usual grilled chicken and salad with iced tea, and table talk mostly concerned news of the Abrigan Mine, especially whether betas had been involved in the mistreatment of the human workers (yes), whether I would continue to work on improving the miners’ lives now that Melissa was doing the same (yes), and whether I really thought it was a good idea to take the girls there to see the place in person (yes). “But isn’t it traumatic for them?” asked a beta male named Sean. No one at the luncheon, I had noticed, used th