[ He watches fondly as she orders her lunch. There's a sharp cramp of nostalgia, as inseparable from loneliness as his forefinger from his thumb. He's missed even this -- her ability, like him, to seemingly consume her weight in food. But in South America, rations were always scarce. You learnt to snatch whatever you could. (It's a refreshing change from eating with Yin, who pecks at salads like a pretty anorexic sparrow. Or Korra, who finds it seemingly impossible to sit still for one damn meal. ]
[ Watching her deliberate over the dessert section, he says, ] Order whatever you like. [ He can afford it. The pay at Cafe Satine is reasonable. But as a single man in a tax-free city, with a number of below-the-table jobs in the Underground, it's easy to amass a small fortune in a few months. ]
[ The problem, ultimately, becomes: What do I spend all this money on? ]
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[ Watching her deliberate over the dessert section, he says, ] Order whatever you like. [ He can afford it. The pay at Cafe Satine is reasonable. But as a single man in a tax-free city, with a number of below-the-table jobs in the Underground, it's easy to amass a small fortune in a few months. ]
[ The problem, ultimately, becomes: What do I spend all this money on? ]