Breq takes a slow sip out of the bowl. Hmm. Well, it's a welcome variety from just water. It's funny - 99% of her existence she'd drunk only water unless it would have been rude to refuse whatever else was offered. But it's nice, to accept a drink of something else, as one equal to another.

"The type that's snobbish about tea in particular, or some other arbitrary marker of culture?"