It's mid-morning when Daine, Edgar, and Almondine enter the park. She manages to buy some sweetened almonds, though she has to figure out which bills to use by the men pictured on them and not the numbers, which are nonsense. She notes the vendor checking them the same way, though the other woman is doubtless more familiar with American money and can do it at a glance. It's just as well Daine's visited the stand before, otherwise she would have had no idea how much the snack cost in the first place.

They're hurling nuts into the air for the crows to catch when Daine feels a surge of alarm from some of the People farther in the park. Something has them nervous, though they can't specify what, thanks to the rift. Daine frowns, then motions for Edgar to follow her as she heads towards the source of the commotion.