She gestures for him to follow and chatters in Cirth. "I don't understand how a machine could possibly do what the Winter Light's gifts do, or even a facsimile, but I can't think of a reason for you to make it up..." The cafeteria is serving porridge and bread; there are cooking smells for forthcoming dinnertime coming from the kitchen, but none of that food is out yet. "Help yourself to as much of this as you'd like." She herself takes a roll. There are some younger paladins (who call Kaja "Sister") and some older ones who are also eating the supplied food rather than wait for a real meal.