"You can eat normal bread with something else, though," X pointed out. "Like jam. Toast must taste really good if they invented a big thing like this to make it easier. I wonder if you can eat toast with jam on it?"

X had grown up sheltered, but not deprived. The Forest had given him and his clan a lot, but it never gave them anything like a toaster before. Then again, it had never spirited him away to a completely different world before, either. You learned new things every day.

X surveyed the markets with a critical eye that looked altogether too old to belong on his young face. "Where can we buy some? Is that a bread place, over there?"