"Where were you before you were here? If you don't mind me asking." Even as she spoke, Sam bobbed the cookies at Akito to approximate go on, take another! "And if you don't mind... I'd also like to know how you have your meat."

Her curiousity was frank, but uncritical---just curiousity. As acknowledged, everybody's expectations were all over the board, and that something so basic as food should illustrate that (frankly) figured.