What has Padparadscha been telling her? "Oh, he caught me crying once and he asked if I was leaking, which I still think it's funny," she starts to blab, missing the point that it was rhetorical, "and then we talked about how you don't need food and water and how you eat sunlight instead and I also asked him if I can be like you because fleshy people are too high maintenance!"

At Rutile's mention of plants, she purses her lips together. What does she know about plants, other than they need sunlight and water to grow? She's never really given plants much thought, since they seem to just always be... there. Existing and persisting over the years. (She hasn't been in a single science class, and her homeschooling's on more practical matters like money and fishing.) "So... you magically turn sunlight into energy?"