Jass laughed quietly and shook his head.<span style="color: #b3b300">"well, first of all i need to eat too. but you need so much because we have two kinds of food stores, shorts and longs. the short stores are much more common and they sell fresh fruits, vegetables, breads and other things that spoil quickly, it is expected that you will visit one of them each week and get what you need for the week. then there are Longs. they sell frozen meat, cheese, canned fruits and vegetables as well as a wide array of other frozen goods and preserved goods. these things will last years if they are kept frozen or sealed so your expected to get enough for one month each trip. if everyone does their weekly and monthly trips properly it helps the farmers and hunters know how much they need to get each month so they don't get too much of any one thing and create excess waste or shortages."</span>he watched her with a smile and shook his head.<span style="color: #b3b300"> "i am just about three hundred years old, i probably got about twenty or thirty years left before my age catches up with me. i haven't given you any orders and i never would."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>