[center][hr][color=ffaa00][h1]Echo Montegawitz[/h1][/color][hr][/center]
There was really very little threat to Tahlia as she consumed who-knows-what. Most threats in food came from pathogens contained in poorly prepared or foreign raw foods. Beyond that protein was protein, carbohydrates were carbohydrates, fats were fats, sugars were sugars, and fibers were pretty much everything that the body had no clue what to do with. Now, mind you, don’t just go out devouring your way through the countryside. Berries and seeds were not uncommon to be poisonous, containing chemicals to drive the wrong type of animals off (such as insects or bears) some roots were toxic as well making sure that critters didn’t munch on them, and likewise some leaves held those exact same defensive mechanisms. However, on the local level these would be sure to have an affect to the bodies of those who could eat them without the troublesome poisoning. Such as caffeine, it was toxic to a brain the size of a pinhead, cocaine was dangerous to medium sized animals. However, while bigger and more muscular, these aliens were relatively the same size as a human. One thing could be sure, bio-chemistry was the same. There was no substitute for carbon for cracking and bonding, and alien or human cells had to all function off of that same principal. Water was another absolute, there was no other chemical or combination of chemicals that could substitute it. Without water the delicate work within a cell could simply not function. Not only did it function as an insulator as well as a conductor, a cleanser as well as a solution, it could also range in PH from one end of the spectrum to the other. Water was water was water, and life could simply not function on the atomic level without it.

The most real threat was that the bread was infused with vitamins that were not something that earth used. This would likely be caused by the use of a vitamin that was common on one world wile being totally foreign on another. While plants and animals had a great deal of vitamins, they were distributed and diluted. Most vitamin supplements were highly concentrated in order to compensate for a body's inability to absorb them without the other needed support structures of a natural infusing of the molicules. Such an overdose could be dangerous.

There was also one theoretical possibility that was quite a real danger if not coming across as complete fiction. It had inadvertently been resolved without anybody even noticing it. The bread, the ship, the aliens, they could all have been made of antimatter. While the name held some level of magical mojo to it as though it was some mystical imperceptible sparkles, antimatter was a substance just like any other substance and was completely undetectable due to the fact that it was simply matter spinning in an opposite direction. There was not really anything mystical about it. In fact, it was theorized that entire planet's, entire civilizations, entire galaxies were made of the stuff. The only reason it was so rare on Earth was because everything was already spinning one direction, and it took a great deal of energy to get it to turn around. Such matter would seem harmless until it came in contact with normal matter that was its counter. The two particles would annihilate each-other upon contact... and none too gently either. However, due to the fact the two ships and inhabitants were not rapidly boiling away into nothing but a massive bath of radiation, we can assume that was not the case.

At any rate, Echo didn’t care. She simply slumped in a corner of the cell wishing that there was something to sit or lounge on. Her head had been stuffed so full that her stomach didn’t even notice its own vacancy. She had plenty of busy work in her head right now that the lack of chores didn’t really bother her. She though in silence, contemplating twelve things at once. The waiting was actually welcome relief from the insanity of the day.