The knife is innately valuable for supernatural reasons (it's enchanted for stabbing mals), but that explanation wasn't parseable. He'll follow.

…wow, robots, cool.

"So, you'll be able to sleep in one of the corners of this room without disrupting anything, and we've already set up a few sleeping bags and blanket options for you in the corner to the right. Just try them out, and pick out the one you like best?"

The room spans much of the width of the building. It takes a few minutes to reach a pile of plush sleeping bags and various brands of blankets. The sleeping bags seem like they'd be impractically heavy to hike with anywhere, but they're also much more roomy and spacious than a normal sleeping bag.

These are unreasonably fancy sleeping bags and it is not clear why one would need a blanket with them. Which one looks fastest to exit nondestructively? He'll take that one.

The largest and most spacious bag is white and grey, and it'd probably be the easiest to get out of. You can actually unzip the top part, so it's basically just a mat on the ground. Although you'd probably feel a bit naked without a blanket as well. It'll be a relatively tight fit in the corner of the room, but Ibrahim could easily sleep there.

Great! He'll get that set up. With a blanket. …he doesn't really know how to pick a blanket for a climate, usually everything is the same temperature unless someone's casting spells which heat or cool it. He'll go with something not too fuzzy that doesn't seem heavy. And which is one closed solid piece. Duvets are right out.

None of them are even slightly fuzzy; they're all incredibly slick and silky. There is one very thin blanket that weighs nearly nothing, but just about everything else clearly has weights in it. The others are also all fairly thick and warm, as well.

Who are these people who do not know what a normal fabric is. …well, hallucinations. Weirdly long hallucination. He'll take the blanket without weights in it. (Why would anyone want to use a blanket with weights in it?) He sets up a sleeping space. He doesn't use anything to approximate a pillow, that's what he plans to use his backpack for.

Then everything is just about ready! One of the people walking around gives Ibrahim a glance before rocking a baby to sleep. Then she gives the baby boy a massage and sings a lullaby, before laying him down in his crib and placing a tarp hidden in a pocket at the end of the crib on top of the baby, blocking out any light from the lights in the ceiling.

"I am set up. Thank you. Is there a place I can go to eat food?"

"... well, you can order something and eat it in the lobby? What are you thinking of having?"

Since when do people choose what food they eat at mealtimes. …okay, the answer is "sometimes before he went to school", that is the answer, it's just a totally foreign question.

"A food that is … not hard to make? With the, uh, things a person needs to eat to do well and be strong? I don't know what food there is or how hard it is to make."

"That's too vague, honestly? We have so much different food that I don't even know what to ask for. Is there anything you like more than other foods?" Her tone is mildly annoyed.

Oh dear, being annoying. He needs a food preference. …hamburgers are straightforward, right, he'll draw a diagram of a hamburger. It has a crinkly bit that comes from a head of lettuce, and a smooth bit which comes from a cross-section of a tomato, and some kind of patty that comes from a cow with black-and-white spots. "Something like this?"

"I'm not sure what that is? Or, at least, I haven't ever seen anything like it. Can you tell me what ingredients are in it? Maybe it's just that food looks different where you come from, but the ingredients are the same."

Do they not recognize cows. This is going to look very silly. "This is a <cow>. The <cow> goes moo. It's big. It has <fur>." He'll pat his hair, which is … covered by the bodysuit, oh well. "It eats grass." He'll … mime picking up grass from the floor? This is incredibly awkward.

He'll explain that the tomato is red and the lettuce is green. He doesn't know how to explain bread. It comes from wheat, probably, he can draw a piece of wheat? Wheat is … amber, right, it's amber in the national anthem, or at least some kind of grain is. And amber is yellow. But that might be about corn, people joke about Americans and corn. He'll say it's probably yellow.

He could also eat … a rice bowl … with egg … and he should probably pick a vegetable, onions are common, also with onion? One of the students was nostalgic about those? Rice comes from a plant that wants to be in water some of the time. Eggs come from birds and they have white or brown shells and a white inside part with a yellow sphere inside there. Onions tend to be white or yellow or red and they're bulbs. Does that work?

"Right, so you're saying that part of your food is made of cow. But how? Can you eat the... cow fur, somehow? Is there some method of turning milk into... no, you can't be eating an entire block of cheese like that? I thought I recognized the tomato and lettuce, it's just the cow-part confusing me. And it's also really interesting that you use bread like that!"

"Ahh, you'd be happy with some ordinary rice-eggs-veggies? Excellent choice, it never goes wrong, and the taste of the chef's interpretation is always so fun and exciting! I'll call my favorite chef now; you're going to love his rendition! He has this really interesting sweet onion."

Do they not eat meat. Are people going to be mad at him when they figure out that he eats meat. …ate meat, he's been on illusioned nutrient paste for years and if they don't eat meat here he's not going to go hunting for it. He's never going to show anyone this drawing again, isn't he. Anyway. "Okay."

"Were you wanting to eat now, or were you asking just in general? I think the rice falls off in quality lightning-quick if you don't eat it fresh, so I wouldn't want to order it without you eating it fresh."

"I was wanting to eat now."

Outside food impends! …probably. There might be more problems first. But outside food impends!

"Yup, I'll make the call. You'll probably want to start heading down to the lobby now; it's not much longer until the food arrives."

He'll head over! He is trying to not appear a weird amount of enthusiastic but he kind of still does.

After taking the elevator down and finding the way back down to the lobby, it's just a few minutes before a cute robot, with stickers that make it look like it's vaguely dressed like a waiter at an American diner, drives in through same door Ibrahim entered through. There's a dot-matrix display that tries its best to replicate the facial expression of a peppy young waitress.

He'll approach the robot, if other people aren't acting like it's their robot, and have a look.

Everyone else is completely ignoring it. The robot has very obvious lid on top; taking it off reveals a squared off steel box, smelling faintly of rice and eggs. Removing the lid of the steel box reveals a truly huge portion of rice, eggs and various vegetables, including thin strips of onions in the food. There are several tables with chairs near the corners of the waiting room.

Outside food!

He will take it to a table with a chair and … inspect the utensil situation … and prod it to check for mals … and take off his mask so he can eat the Outside Food. Which he is going to be careful about and not eat more of than he can physically process without getting sick.