"Just so," said Amaya, happily, because, really, that was the true magic of meats-on-sticks, their ability to just effortless crumble away all her walls and suspicions, her supposed toughness and deeply-seated neuroses, to just strip her down to the actually pretty squishy person underneath who could appreciate the simplicity of tasty flesh shoved onto something pointy.

The little things in life, you know?

"A multitasker's food," she concluded, "and I'm definitely a multitasking kind of woman."