[one of his dark grey eyebrows shoots up his forehead. he's not sure which is more surprising: that she's been there an entire week and still hasn't heard about the creatures in the wastes or that she can recognize Earl Grey by taste. there's no chance Wright taught her that. offhandedly] That's fortunate. The tea selection is rather limited around here.

[growing more serious] Please give me some credit. I'm well aware you're too old to frighten away from dangerous locations with mere fairy tales. There are things out there, on the edges of the city. Things I could happily have lived my entire life without seeing. We're far enough in to be relatively safe here, but you should be aware of the potential threat.