Morning tasted like metal and powdered egg.
They ate standing at the counter: thin tomato slices, a shake of salt, and eggs reconstituted into something that pretended to be breakfast. Sera had no idea where they even found the powered eggs, but that didn't really phase her at all.
She was more impressed with the fact that her creature was actually letting her eat human food again… and she was pretty sure that it had something to do with the men in the kitchen more so than the food itself.
Elias laid out the improvised "sunglasses" — rectangles of smoked plastic with cord through the corners, and the movement pulled her out of her thoughts. He started to say "snow blindness prevention," stopped, and corrected himself.
"Shades," he said, and pushed one toward each of them.
Lachlan tipped his fork in a salute. "Look at you, being human and all."
