'Nux' sounded Latin. Her Latin wasn't anywhere near as good as her Greek (specifically the dialect spoken on Themyscria, which understandably had more in common with ancient Greek than the modern day language), but she had picked some up in self-defense against ending up the dead blonde in a horror movie (back before she'd gained the ability to one-punch monsters). 'Nux' meant...'nut', didn't it? Like a tree-nut, not a crazy person-nut. And something else...

She noticed he was watching her, waiting, and she took a swallow from her mug to show it was safe.

"They're cookies," she said. "They're like bread, sort of, if you have that." She pointed at a particular cookie. "The brown flecks in this one are chocolate, like what's in the cocoa." She pointed to another cookie. "This one is oatmeal raisin, the flecks are dried grapes. This one's a sugar cookie, that's what the shiny stuff is on top." She picked up the sugar cookie, which was star-shaped, and snapped off one of the limbs, popping it in her mouth and offering him the rest of the cookie to try.