And here's Monoceros!

She's in her full-on supervillain outfit, mostly leather in mottled gray over white and a mask that includes a six foot spiraled tusk. She's very practiced at not accidentally stabbing anything she doesn't want stabbed as she sashays through the convention with a couple of huge bags of takeout. "You're going to love Indonesian food," she says, plopping the bags on the table and handing Katie a bouquet of satay skewers.

"I am?" Swoon. God this woman has impeccable fashion sense.

"Yup. I got lots of exotic meats. Those are just chicken, though. Eat up, some of this is fried and won't have travelled that well!"

Nom nom nom. "Can you get beef next time, though? I don't really like chicken except as a receptacle for breading and sauce."

"The sauce is the main attraction on satay! There's other stuff." She produces some meatballs. "Those are beef."

Shit, how spicy is this stuff? Katie doesn't handle spice well.

The meatballs aren't! They're weirdly smooth, but undeniably beefy, and come with veggies and noodles and broth.

Fascinating. Not her favorite, but she's being a good girl and chowing down nonetheless.

"I've also got stingray, horse, water buffalo, turtle, fruit bat, and goat complete with offal."

"Damn. Do they normally eat all those things in Indonesia?"

"Customarily in different parts, but I placed some orders in advance. I also have pork floss but that's dried and intended for the trip home."

"Pork floss?"

"It's like fluffy jerky!"

"...Fluffy how???"

"They get it so they can peel apart all the individual muscle fibers. It's good as a topping on stuff if you don't like it straight. It's kind of hard to find the pork kind around here, it's not halal, but some folks eat wild boar and that's one of the ways they prep it."

"Oh, right, Muslim country, yeah. Anyways, that sounds maybe good. I was worried it would be, like, fluffy like it's moldy or something."

"Nah, it's like cotton candy, only meat."

"Well I never liked cotton candy but that's mainly because it's too sweet so maybe I'll like this."

"I think you will. We shall put it on our porridge on the way home. For now, a less shelf stable feast." She keeps pulling out takeout containers.

"Porridge? What are we, the Three Bears?"

"Well, I'd give you gruel, but I'm trying to fatten you up!"

Blush. "What actually is the difference though?"

"Gruel's thinner."

"How's that achieved, though? Just a different water to grain ratio, or what?"

"Yeah, pretty much, and you jazz it up less."