"...and with my remaining one silver and four copper, uh, are these going to be worth anything to coin collectors or something in your world?"

"Probably not, they're not, like, actual historical coins or anything."

"Okay, then I want one of those spinachy cheese things from Tirion - how do you price things that are only ever given out for free -"

Unfortunately the answer is that I must price them by extrapolation from comparable goods; I cannot distribute them for free. But Bella gets a spinachy cheese thing.

"I remember those. Can I get one too, I do have some money on me."

Of course. Spinachy cheesy thing for Idaia. Tastes like Valinor.

She's going to cry some more.

Bella sniffles a little too. I learned to cook. Managed to get halfway decent at a couple things. Couldn't figure these out. Wrong kinds of cheese or something.

What kind of cheese is it? she asks Bar.

Bar names the cheese; it has a pretty Quenya name. The closest Earth equivalent would probably be some combination of feta and parmesan.

Feta and parmesan. We can try that.

Okay.

"Oh, also at any given time I tend to have kind of a ridiculous amount of pork lying around because in California wild pigs are a super dangerous invasive species and you're allowed to hunt them as much as you want whenever."

"Yum."

"That's most of my classmates' reactions too."

"I did figure out a close knockoff of that one wine sauce -" She bounces the flavor.

"Oh, that one wine sauce! That one wine sauce was great. Hey, did you ever get to see any dinosaurs?"

"Never got around to it."

She conjures the baby dinosaur.

"Awww!"

"Remember how I said Tyelcormo can talk to animals? He was concerned that going near the adult versions was too risky since I wouldn't come back from Mandos if I died so we looked at them from a safe distance and he brought me a baby one to actually interact with."

"That's adorable."

"I know." She pets the conjuration. "He was. In general. And sweet and protective and--Eru, the way he looked at me--"

Pet, pet. "We've got - two and a half magic systems plus subtle arts to play with."

"I am so, so glad I found this place."