"Yeah, I know. Sometimes you want mass produced fries from a freezer bag." César gets it, even if he's got a gym rat-like girlfriend.

He makes a huh noise. "Glad you found your way back onto the wagon." César takes another fry and almost starts to say something, stops himself, and dips the fry in the mayo instead. "... You've missed a lot, but the bad stuff can wait until after we're not eating. I'm getting engaged to Magne soon, one of her friends showed up, Magne's opened up a brothel to protect the red light workers, and we had a bunch of short term visitors. My mother and brother were two of them. And Mama told me that she and Papa were cured to be themselves again by the global cure event my brother created. My parents are alive."