Renée gets chicken fingers and an order of the jalapenos and a slice of blueberry pie. Zeviana is welcome to taste all of it.

"Diner food's a hit, huh?"

"Yes," replies Zeviana around a mouth full of cheesecake, so it comes out more as 'Mpfss.'

"Maybe you'll like all earth food this much, wouldn't that be lucky?"

She takes the time to swallow before replying, this time. "Yeah! But it probably won't work like that, I bet. If it does I will be very surprised."

"Yeah, probably. I don't even like everything and I've tried things Isabella wouldn't touch and Adarin looked repulsed by the very idea of."

Zeviana tilts her head, curious. "What did you eat that repulsed my brother?"

"In Italy there's a kind of cheese that's processed with maggots, and they don't always take them out before eating."

"Ah. Okay, pass. Maybe if I had nothing else to eat, but if I get choices, nope."

"It wasn't that bad! Strong, but not bad."

"Right, well - maybe eventually, I guess? But like - give me a few years to get used to this plane and we'll see. My answer is probably still going to be a pass, though."

"Whatever floats your boat. If that is diner food, then diner food it is."

She giggles. "I do like diner food. It's delicious. And I can just show up whenever, show the clan tattoo, and bam, food?"

"At this particular restaurant until - next summer, I think, then the clan and the diner renegotiate."

"Alright," says Zeviana cheerily. "Then I will probably be coming here a lot."

"There's more restaurants, you may as well try them all, but that is certainly reasonable. The food on the lands is very much meat and vegetables, and I happen to like cheese."

"That's why you're willing to try maggoty cheese, I guess."

"No, plenty of people like cheese and wouldn't try that kind."

"I'm adventurous."

"... All right, I'll accept that instead. You're adventurous. You eat strange things that brothers and daughters everywhere shy away from."

"Yes. Yes I do."

"Any other strange foods I should be on the lookout for? You're in charge of trying things out first and giving me an opinion of it. Congrats. You're adventurous."

"Well, I grew up in this country and don't think of anything conventionally available here as strange... I don't know, sushi? How do you feel about raw fish?"