I glance up, dusting my hands off, and nod. "They're pretty common, which is good. They'll definitely help with bulking up the stores for winter. They taste a lot like a regular potato, but the consistency is more like a yam." Not that Kira really wants to know that much detail, I realize, and motion to some vines looping low through the tattered roof above us.

"Let's get some of those and get moving. I really don't want to spend the night up here worrying that something could fall on top of me or from beneath me at any moment."