"Probably an improvement, though I haven't seen much of this place."

Eefa suspects she has been misunderstood but isn't going to correct Pelape about that.

Then Pelape won't know. Cleaning cleaning cleaning.

Fifi has figured out how to make hats out of the napkins. Like so.

She's not putting them on her head, is she?

Only the bottom one is actually touching her head.

"If it touches your hair I have to clean it again. I'm paid by the hour or I'd care more but like, ew."

"Around here we put napkin hats on our heads and it's okay."

"It's not the end of the world but it's not sanitary."

"Yes, the world already ended and so we don't care about things like that anymore."

"The world is manifestly existing even if it took a lot of damage."

"Sometimes endings are beginnings."

"...sure."

Eefa does not understand any of this but that's not very unusual.

Eventually Pelape works up the nerve to go into town and see what there is to see. Eefa may join her or stay in Elysium as she prefers.

Eefa will stick by her protector.

The busy market outside has stalls selling a variety of foods, water, some basic electrical appliances, clothes, and other goods. 

...what kinds of electrical appliances. How expensive are the clothes.

Toasters, electric heaters, and some rather expensive blenders in one stall. Another sells lightbulbs that look much more sophisticated, along with canned food and higher quality utensils and cookware than the other stall.

A shirt costs a bit less than a week of the cheapest food for one person.

What's the range of dates on the canned food, or don't they bother with that on this planet? Is the cloth machined or plausibly homespun?

The canned food is all a century past the best used by date, while the cloth looks homespun.

Ew.

She'll probably want a change of clothes eventually even though she can keep the ones she's got on clean; they've got little rents and rips. Will these people take Elysium-room-days as a currency or does she need to find a way to save up something more negotiable?

They won't take the room-days but the Mayor's at the market today over that way and can probably help.

No, she's not in a hurry, she can clean her clothes, but she'll keep an eye out for anyone who's paying in money for anything she can do.

There are people paying in money for cleaning, wagon repair, services that require heading to a second location, bulk orders of various goods, water, mercenaries, printing, and more. As the day goes on more stalls get set-up, spilling further into the city and onto side streets between houses.