Rose hips and petals, clover flowers, and some less easily identified herbs.

Many of the sick don't feel particularly hungry, but there's still the supply of honey-sweetened bread for those of them that do to eat.

It smells really good! He's pleased by it — he typically reflexively ignores his sense of smell because there are a lot of bad smells in his profession.

:After the two finish eating, we're going to take our break too, including Marina. So we won't be able to talk to each other. Is there anything you anticipate needing from us? Ria and Mani will finish their break before we go for ours, although if there's anything you need help with then, we'd need to talk about it beforehand.:

He thinks about it for a moment.

:No, I don't think so. I think, with more helpers, that we have things well in hand. And nobody has been degrading very fast. Have a restful break.:

In that case, he will eat! He won't talk to anyone during his break, because Marina and Sene will be busy practicing Telepathy. The goal being for him to pick it up off of Marina before she runs out of energy. He doesn't anticipate him to get it before that happens, though he does expect him to pick it up in a few days.

He comes back twenty minutes later.

:I think I want to learn some words from your language, so at least we have something in case something goes wrong with our Telepathy. What languages are spoken here?:

:We speak Reformed North-Eastern Marnesi Trade Language,: Gornet responds. :Everywhere in the region. It's not a difficult language to pick up, but some people from the south or east have trouble with a few of the sounds. Oh — some people who used to be traders or similar also speak Southern Cold Ocean Language.: