"That sounds terrible." Jerky was good for emergencies, or if she didn't feel like cooking on a particular day or after a long week. It was not the mainstay for traveling. She shook her head at those ideas, suddenly grateful that she and Nariko had never been more than a day or two away from wherever they need to run off toward. While he flitted around she finished cutting the next set of potatoes and dumped them in the pan.

He reappeared and Kaine did her absolute best to refrain looking upset at the appearance of three cups rather than two. Would it have been rude to ignore Anis? Probably. Did Kaine really care about that when she felt her lightest in years? Of course not. That was the problem with emotions, some were so addicted that wanting more felt inevitable, and that was what had always terrified her.

"I think she'll be fine," And then she took her cup, with a lighter dose of satisfaction, but ti was there all the same.