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What a life it must be, to have multiple places to get food on just about every city block. The ability to choose such things was a luxury Powder rarely knew. In the Undercity, you ate what you could and that was that. This city, on the other hand? It seemed like you could spit in any direction and you’d hit somewhere you could buy food if you had the money. She did not.
Still she’d slipped into the small cornerside building- a convenience store, she might’ve called it if she were familiar with such things. The easy access to pre-prepared, portable food was definitely convenient. As far as she knew, if the person working the cash register didn’t see something that happened in the store, it didn’t happen. Even so, she was careful to make sure they weren’t watching as she slipped a sandwich from the refrigerated section, as well as some kind of green drink from the mountains. Nothing that would be missed, she’d rationalized by the time she got to the door, trying to seem casual enough that she wouldn’t be-
“Ah-!” Someone had opened the door just as she leaned to push against the bar, the momentum carrying her to stumble right into him. “I- I’m sorry, I wasn’t…looking where I went, sorry…” The jolt of the impact led her to drop the drink, which rolled outside a couple feet from the door. None of it had been packed into a plastic bag. That didn’t particularly occur to her- she was mostly focused on trying to slip past this man without drawing too much attention...