Because of the delay in the afternoon, by the time Sherry and Nina returned to 99 Crown Street, it was already nearing dusk, time for dinner.
In this "City of Elves," there really wasn't much that could be called normal food, but luckily, normal ingredients were always available. Lucresia's "servants" prepared a sumptuous dinner for the guests, and Nina and Sherry finally managed to eat "the food that humans should eat."
But they didn't feel quite at ease while eating.
The things they had seen and heard in that underground shelter still made them dizzy—there were too many things they didn't understand, too many things that were beyond their comprehension, about the Grand Annihilation, about the "Black Wall" at the historical beginning, about those apocalyptic days, about those destroyed old worlds, and about this "new world" born in the Deep Sea Era...