"The second one!"

"I suppose I will trust Lianelle on this."

The wonder of modern cuisine is going to be KD with hot dogs and peas in it. Ketchup optional. Lianelle's got to stay by her and snuggle while she's making it though.

Oh good, that's her favorite job.

"Oh wow - you made this just now on your own?"

"A lot of the prep steps occurred before I bought it but basically yeah."

"That's really cool - how do they prep it in advance in a way that can be transported?"

"The pasta's dried, the cheese is dried and powdered and also put in a sealed packet, the hot dogs - that's the sausages - came refrigerated and the peas frozen, everybody's got a machine that can keep things cold in their house and grocery stores have big ones and there are refrigerated trucks too."

"Huh, are there a few people in this city who make all those things?"

"I doubt they're specifically in this city, people can import things a lot more readily than they could in your day so they do that a lot."

"Oh, that's neat - is this because transportation is much cheaper or something else?"

"Transportation is much much cheaper and safer and faster!"

"I see the future has much to recommend it."

"I think it's better, basically all around."

"Does that trend seem likely to continue?"

"Yup. Not monotonically."

"Well, I suppose one cannot have everything."

"How big a place do you want, do you have preferences about what it's near..." She's starting to populate a search for apartments for rent.

"Small is acceptable. Are bathrooms like the one you possess standard? And heating?"

"Yes and yes."

"Then I'm not sure what additional preferences I could have that might be relevant."

"Location?" she prompts, narrowing it down to studios.

"Near transportation or a collection of books I would be permitted to study?"

"Bus stop and a library, sure, do you care if you're near us?"

"Not as much as the other two but that would be my next priority." He in fact wants to be at least somewhat far away but isn't going to admit that.