After finding seats at the long, ornate dining tables of the packhouse’s dining room, the two women and the baby twins settled down to a delicious breakfast. They sat on one of the window tables, Diwa’s tray full of small plates filled with diced various delicious fruit in honey, cereal, and fresh cinnamon rolls. Siel had pancakes with fruit for the babies, along with crispy honey bacon, fluffy scrambled eggs, and fruit bits with cinnamon rolls, for herself.

Of course, this was ...