Kirila's Past Work Talk:
"Yeah, once or twice. Some groups don’t think the peaceful arrangement that The Empress got with the other races is good. You know the usual species superiority types. They think spinarrans are better, higher forms of life. Sometimes they get a bit too rowdy... one time intelligence sniffed out that one of these groups had all gotten together and relocated to one our colonies. They were planning on breeding up an army. That was no good for sure. They were probably going to come back home and try to off The Empress and take over then pull some ‘manifest destiny’ stuff. That was one of the times I got into a real fight. Now the other time was a lot more interesting. World called Rakshasis. Nice place. All twilight, sand and mountains. All in all, not bad for my kind, even on the surface. Not too bright. Get hungry, and all you have to do is lean down and scoop up and handful of sand. Not very nutritious, but it gets the job done. It’s one of our few colonies. We don’t spread out much since we can make use of vastly more of a planet’s mass than non-lithophages can. Anyway, back to the story. This happened when it was a new place. Our settlements were still small. Tunnels were being dug around the clock to dig in as we do. The colony’s garrison was still on the way to the planet, so it had nothing but some local militia to stand up to the incoming attack”
Instead of:
"Get hungry, and all you have to do is lean down and scoop up and handful of sand."
Should be:
"Get hungry, and all you have to do is lean down and scoop up a handful of sand."
The "and" does not parse in this context. Very minor issue.