That was interesting to me to begin with. It's been a few years since any corporation really mattered.

⟪ money has been obsolete for a good fifteen years where she is from. it's resources that count, raw and simple, they money would be a middleman worth nothing at all in the end. beacon's housing is government assigned, because with as few survivors as there are, no one is unwanted anymore.

officially.

still, she manages a smile as she seats herself, and her voice at least is warm and friendly. ⟫

It's worth going for the free food. ⟪ a scientifically inaccurate polar bear joins the penguins on screen, the show's vr cube seeming to care very little about such petty things as geographical separations. ⟫ Though I suppose yours is a more subtle way to take in the local colour.

⟪ that's, at least, what caroline thinks the woman is doing. ⟫