"I will!" Alex chirps. "I just--I haven't had real food in a while, so this is, um, really exciting to me."

He piles three of them onto his plate, which was mostly vegetables and fruit until now, because the most reliable source of that they had before coming here was picking all of the lettuce and tomatoes out of some really mediocre sandwiches.

"Excuse me, sir, may I ask you something? Do you know if they ever serve Chinese here?"