"I'll take two potato twisters, please," Ria told a man standing at a street stall. "One in hand and one to go."
"Coming right up! That will be twenty alliance credits, Miss."
Ria used her neural inlay to transmit the money to the payment portal of the street stall. The man dipped two spirally-cut, skewered potatoes into a gaussian radiation fryer that deep-fried them in the blink of an eye, all without a single burn. He plucked it out a moment later, handing it to an eager Ria.
"Thank you!" Ria immediately began munching, walking out of the line of impatient customers, enjoying her snacks. She had just gotten back that day from her second infected world hunt, eager to take a day off in the Jakarthar Federation. The sky was already dark, with the two red dwarf stars having already set in City Stormfront.
