Freaking surreal's what it is.

[Sure, she's used to it now but meeting a second Akira was bizarre...

(We are, ah, not speaking of the issues that came with that. Not anymore, at least.)

She grins at the comment on the food.]

It's a little more mild than I would've liked to make it, but I was cooking a lot of it at once mostly for strangers...

[So, people she would've had no way of gauging spice tolerance.]

Should be about an hour, provided we don't run into trouble on the way down. Oh, right, do you need clothes more suited to the weather?