A third of the world is covered by the howling maelstrom that was born a century ago. It is not ordinarily a place you'd find people surviving, but sometimes things appear in it. Strange things - otherworldly things - brought into the mist of a howling storm of cloudy dust and wind that blows in whichever direction it wants.
Then Pelape is going to sit here doing the dishes till the head housekeeper wants her in the laundry room and then she's going to do that. Eefa can fold, at least the things that aren't too big for her to neatly fold.
Pelape starts to demonstrate but then the housekeeper directs her back to actually cleaning the laundry and demonstrates folding herself.
It's some kind of meat and vegetables and a peanut stew. Pelape thinks it's pretty good.
"Not hungry?" she asks Eefa.
"I guess that's how often they eat around here. I'm used to three meals a day, personally, but two's what comes with the room."
"Why more than one." Eefa can basically survive off one meal the size they gave her this morning. Two is suspicious.
"It's more comfortable? I guess they're giving you a grownup portion size so maybe you don't need two meals especially if you're used to one, I'll eat yours if you don't want it."
"Like you want to trade plates, or you changed your mind and actually you're really hungry?"
"- Eefa, I did my best to clean your clothes but they're still clothes, that's not a good way to store snacks."
"We can ask in the kitchens for snacks that can go in pockets, okay? But if you bring food like that into our room it's going to attract pests."
"You can eat it now, but -
- okay, I'm thinking of myself as taking care of you, and part of taking care of kids is making rules so they don't do things that'll harm them in ways that aren't obvious to kids, like by attracting pests. But if you don't want me taking care of you, then - bringing food into your own room you had to yourself could be between you and the Elysium staff, and I can get a separate room. Would you... rather I not try to take care of you?"