"No, I understood your meaning, and it's what perplexes me," Malms replies, tilting his head to eye this new acquaintance. "Unless the star you hail from is very different from mine, coffee isn't something that grows just anywhere. Unless you hail from somewhere they farm it, it's likely to come with a fair bit of expense for the shipping. Sugar you can get from sugarcane, from beets, from the sap of certain trees if you know what you're doing, and cattle of some sort seem to show up nearly everywhere."

"So I'm trying to figure out how you get coffee, and yet lack the sugar or cream, and running into a failure of imagination. My apologies if I offended, Lio, it was not intended."