He nods, because that is what he understands the future is like. Food is in abundance, something that seems to him incredible, woth the population being as big as he's told it gets. Here is like that, the shops always seem to have food. The unsettling thing is that no one knows where it comes from.

Its part of the reason he wants to try to grow something. Keep some chickens. Something. If they sign this contract, if he gets Hollow, then perhaps that's possible.

"Thank you. For the food. And the company. And talking the contract through. When we sign it, I'll bring curry."

And woth that, he will leave her, give her some privacy and walk back to the Down, turning over the events of the evening in his head.