[The joke makes laugh, just a little.]

Right. Well, I may have told you a bit at some point about the information hunt that Evandau sent me and a few others on, back when things really took a turn south during the rationing. We started tracking down ... a substance. [She lowers her voice slightly, for discretion's sake.] Long story short, some of the clues pointed toward Metal, but when I went to follow them up, I ran into something different altogether.