"I'm pretty great, how about you? How'd your sister's recital go?"

"Pretty well! She wasn't objectively the star of the show but she put on a good performance."

"That's awesome. Do you have videos of it? And would she be okay with you sharing?"

"I didn't do amateur videography but there might be one up on the school website..." She pulls out her everything and rummages, and finds the result to link him to.

"Thanks! I'll watch it later." And they're at a restaurant so table and: "Recommendations here?"

"Pickle beef with whatever your favorite cheese is."

He orders that!

She gets a battered and fried eggplant lamb salsa sandwich. "Trade you half for half."

"Deal." He cuts his in half.

Trade executed. She takes a bite. "Do you not eat out much that you've been wanting recommendations? Do you cook?"

"Yeah. It's not that I don't enjoy eating out, but when I was little and used to live with my mum we mostly cooked together and nowadays I've kept the habit; I know the way I like to cook stuff and it's cheaper even though that's not a constraint anymore."

"Makes sense. My dad is a completely hopeless cook; my mom and I aren't bad but we wind up preferring cheap delivery a lot of the time."

"I get cheap delivery every now and then but mostly when I don't have time to cook," he nods.

"It's not objectively good but there's this picklepot place, greasy and salty and arrives in these flimsy containers, that we usually order from when we have a movie night."

He giggles. "Why that for movie night?"

"I don't remember! It was already tradition by the time I was one."

"That's cute. What kinds of movies do you usually watch?"

"It's all over the place. The last four were a Fen Neli biopic, the latest installment in the Shukal Bunch's Music and Merriment Fest by Sofa's request, that time travel movie from last winter Time for Everything, and a cop drama I forget the title of."

"That is all over the place. Which one did you like best?"

"Time for Everything. It was silly but I didn't catch any plot holes until after it was over, which is good for a time travel movie."

He giggles again. "That's high praise! I'll have to watch it sometime."

"It's not the best time travel movie, I think that's When I Was Twice."

"I've heard of that one but didn't watch on the principle of 'time travel movies tend to be awful,' what's that one like?"

"Uh, do you want the plot summary or the go-home-and-get-a-copy-no-spoilers -"

"Hmm, if you tell me it's worth actually watching the latter, otherwise hit me with everything."