Steorran worulde

"When I was younger, before the collapse, tea wasn't a Sunday-only special drink like it is now. We drank tea pretty much every day - sometimes I even had six cups of tea in a day."

"Six cups in a day? Wow! How did you get that much tea?"

"Well, we make our own tea now, from the camellias out at the side of the house, but back then we didn't have to do that. Remember, back then it was still easy and cheap to get stuff from a long ways away. So the tea was mostly made in places like India and China, and then imported to over here. It's really expensive to get things from there nowadays, but back then, things from overseas were actually often cheaper than things made locally, so tea really wasn't expensive at all. It also wasn't quite the same as the kind of tea we have now. The original tea plant is a kind of camellia, but it's not the same species as the one we get our tea from. The kind we have grows better in this climate, but it doesn't make quite as nice of tea as the original tea plant. It's still pretty good, though. You know how every now and again, on really special occasions, we have fancy tea from the Island? Well, that's from a farm out there that grows the original tea plant. It's pretty expensive, so we only have it occasionally, but it's like the tea I grew up with, and I love it."