"You should try hot chocolate, if you like sweet things. Coffee is more of an acquired taste. They don't have them where you're from? Do you have tea?" Maybe he's one of the rare Nexus-goers who, like her, isn't from Earth.

"So it was an outside group who abolished slavery?" She frowns a little. No wonder he's getting so much pushback from the former slaveowners. "I'm surprised people are still risking the slave trade, if the punishment is death."