"Vitamins will be useful if someone can figure out how to make them," Brigitte muses aloud, poking at her stew as she ponders the question too. "Low-grade painkillers would especially be great. Sometimes I get headaches, if I've been working in the forge too long."

It's been a strange adjustment, not having the little daily conveniences of her own world at hand. Body sore from a hard workout? Take a hot bath and pop some acetaminophen. So it's those modern amenities that she's thinking about, but the question that slips out has the potential to be a bit more serious, before she can think to rein herself in:

"What do you miss most from back home?"