He... ran really fast? I mean, I know European countries are way smaller, but damn. [ But she seems to accept this idea wholesale with nothing more than a lift of her eyebrows. Honestly, nothing seems outside of the realm of possibility anymore. ] It's good he was able to get stuff. After the power went out and a lotta the food went bad fast, I only ate snack food for like, three months? That was awful.

[ Within days of the power going out, all the meat and vegetables and fruit were rendered inedible with the summer heat. The bread started molding, the dairy all turned. Everything frozen melted, and there was no way to cook it anyway. For weeks in the aftermath, she'd eaten nothing but packaged snacks, stuffed with enough preservatives to last. Chips and cookies and crackers, dry cereals. Which sounded great until the end of the third or fourth day, when her body started crying out for anything with some kind of nutritional value.

It was like that until she actually got to Vegas.

Julie takes another sip from her cup and draws her legs up underneath herself, one arm wrapped around her knees. She rolls her eyes thoughtfully as she considers the question. ]

Cadens has a lot of shops, way more'n Nott. General stores and markets for food, clothing shops, all kinds of little specialty places. A lotta stores for just... shit made of crystals? They really like crystals out there. Jaskier has a flower stand, sometimes I help out there.