"...salt? I was a slave, nobody got me spices."

"So . . . you want it just plain, then?"

"No I wanna try spices I just don't know which ones are good."

"A sample platter, then, if they have one?"

"Yeah!"

It transpires they don't have one listed on the menu but are happy to throw a box together for her!  Onion garlic, plum, spicy-hot, red cabbage, and lemon pepper.  Aiu gets a cauliflower beef dish, which he deposits in his storage pocket despite the fact that it absolutely looks like it should not fit.  "Are you still good to walk back to my place or would you like me to carry the baby?"

"You can hold her if you like but I don't mind, she's little."

". . . Maybe when we're inside.  I wasn't sure how much my shoes were helping me is all; they're magic."  His magic shoes (which for some reason are part of his pants) presently lead Rabka back to his tent.

"What do the shoes do?"

"Well, relevantly, being able to walk around a lot without getting tired.  And a few other things like being durable and not needing to be laundered and letting me jump really high."

"You have so much cool stuff here."

"Yeah!  There was a lot less of it until pretty recently but then we figured out how to magically make fabric."

"With like a magic loom or something?"

"It started with those, which was a pretty big step, but then there was the question of getting material to weave and eventually we ended up with fabricators, which can duplicate existing material like the sandwich wrap does."

"Oh, cool! And they make infinite thread?"

"Nope!  Infinite thread is a different thing.  They do an awful lot of completed fabric, though."

"How do you weave with completed fabric, do you cut it into strips?"

"The point is that you don't have to weave it!  You can just get straight to sewing."

"Once you sew a magic thing can you make infinity of that?"

"Basically!  It makes sense that it wouldn't work like that, right?  But it does, and it was just people believing that something like that shouldn't be possible that kept it from being so for as long as it did."

"I don't see why it shouldn't work like that!"

"I don't actually either; I was born after the first one started working.  But apparently people did for hundreds of years!"

"Maybe it didn't use to work? And then started somehow?"

"I guess.  I've never heard of magic itself changing like that, though, instead of people just starting to believe in the right ways."  Here they are again at Aiu's tent.

When Rabka sits down Cathei wakes up and demands to nurse again. Rabka emboobens her.