"Why hypocrite?"

"I use magic on pointless things too sometimes?"

"Oh. Yeah. If you ask anyone they'll say it's not pointless, though, bringing joy to people through art is the divine, or something."

"Let's just say art takes a back seat compared to guns when there's a war on..."

"Yeah. I... think it wouldn't, here, there's a lot of cultural stuff wrapped around it."

"I have lots to learn again, eh? It really is pretty once we got past the outskirts. There are worse cultural features."

"Oh yeah, I can think of one or two."

"I'm itching to practice magic some more."

"After we eat."

They find somewhere very pretty to eat! People are kinda weirded out by Vasil.

Hopefully Vasil doesn't mind?

Eh. Food. Probably better than army kitchen dreck, right? Maybe some fresh fruit if she's lucky.

Oh there's definitely fruit, and grain, and some meat, and cheese, and some nuts.

"There's actually good food. Let me tell you, a meal like this is the domain of the very rich back home right now. For most people it's bread and potatoes and maybe fish."

"—yeah, this war must suck. I'm sorry. We'll find a way to go to your world and fix it."

"It's not like peasant farmers got meat very often even before, but yeah..."

"We'll fix it," she repeats.

"Maybe so. If we do, that'd be great."

"Yeah."

Food! Good food. Nom.

Yep, good food. But Gren has lots to think about and her mood is, understandably, kind of swinging around crazily.

"...Some place around I can try random artifacts without getting too much attention? Or would we have to go outside the town again?"

"If we find, like, a room or something we can do it in peace, yeah. This place's too small to have its own Guild chapter or we could go there—here we can just sleep at the inn."

She takes a deep breath and stretches. "I should probably get to know the guild sooner or later. Bet they work completely differently than the UDF. Having been formed in peacetime and all."

"Yeah, all guilds were formed after the Three Kingdoms were and they happened after the War. There've been smaller conflicts since but not wars, per se."

"Good. War sucks. I'm already tired of war and I've barely seen any of it from the soldier's side."

"I think in Bezanab the smaller fiefdoms fight with each other a lot but I don't think it's often outright war. Anyway, should we get a room? Or two, if you prefer."

Shrug. "I literally couldn't care less, if you don't mind."

"I don't, I prefer it, it's cheaper."