She takes a moment to try to imagine this. It's... hard. "If you do that, share it with me," she says, disbelieving. "It would be good to have the experience, if nothing else, and it makes me wonder."

A really odd idea has popped into her head, in this train world of little individual rooms. "I wonder if a carriage full of sea is possible. Water, coral, fish. Those who eat flesh could sometimes have some fresh squid for a meal."