[ It's one of her growing number of specialties, cooking aside. In truth, she hadn't even been all that good at cooking a year ago. She'd been a baker at heart, and she still is. But the times had evolved and she was going to keep up, come hell or high water. That was her whole reason for venturing outside of her charmed Union life — for the trips to Citadel's markets, and the brazen streets of Caldera.

She says none of this out loud, of course. ]

What "what"? It's like I said back then. If you hadn't [ saved her ] stayed with me, I wouldn't have even learned how to make that.