"Really?" He looks excited and eager at her description. "If the taste's a little off that ain't no problem. It can be fixed. Where did you find it?"

He smiles, looking just a little world-weary for a moment. Fighting to save the world can do that to a kid--so it's probably a look she recognizes. "I get you on that. Gotta live, an' gotta be true to your own self. Ain't no other way to be. Life is too precious to waste."