Valerie carried out the test a few more times, using different cuts of meat as well as any other food she had laying around, from processed slop to cloned fruit. Regardless of what it was, whenever she placed it into the care of her [Eternal Companion] and then removed it again, regardless of how long it was left in there, the result was always the same.
The food came out completely fresh. In fact it was so fresh, that a clone grown banapple - which was a not very nice, but cheap, fruit that was a combination of a banana and an apple - had not browned on the inside when she had taken a bite out of it, even after an hour.
The only thing she had not had a chance to test it with was blood. Although they had an abundance of it between them, in fact their bodies were practically sloshing with it, there was a problem. To them, their own blood tasted absolutely vile.
