There was something to be said, about a country that produced hardy plants also creating a people that suffered greatly from disease in the past and so valued luxury now. But it wasn't to be said by her, at least not to anyone who wouldn't agree. Lalita never entered arguments or debates she wasn't sure she would win.
"Nothing like this." One of her fingers reached out to touch a petal of a nearby flower, "Medicinal plants, teas. Ginger. Useful things." Had he been local he would know of her family, but he wasn't, and the Clovennians didn't care for the land they encroached upon.