"I've spent so much time eating rations of one kind or another that I simply enjoy something that isn't rehydrated." She grinned. "When you're on a world that's little more than a name on a few star charts, digging into the heart of a ruin buried by millennia of neglect, rations are pretty much the only practical choice. That never endeared them to me."

After another bite, she looked up at Shin, studying him for a moment. "If I gave you a list of people, could you look for their dreams? Locals, I mean. Like the king, and the young mage who supposedly brought us here? If we can eliminate people you can find, it may become easier to deduce which one you cannot." Because yeah, it was highly unlikely she planned on giving that up.