"What's rubber?" That kind of seemed key to the entire story she was telling here. There was lots of rubber in it, and ....honestly he wasn't sure what it was.

"So a practical joke that gets out of hand?" Did he get that right? That all seemed, really quite unseemly. "Do people really do that where you're from?" Doing something like that would measure out all sorts of punishments if they were caught. You were expected to act in a certain way. That most definitely did not qualify.

"Yes. Water is the priority. With any luck, each island will have it's own supply. Or it will rain."