A surprise

Having finally signed in you turn your attention to food at long last. You carefully sit down, trying to adopt a lady-like posture with one ankle behind the other. Gracefully you fill the spoon with stew and raise it to your lips, gently placing it in your mouth. Two seconds later you are desperately shovelling spoon after spoon into your gob. How could you have thought the height of Western cuisine was WcDonald's? Flavourless meat on stale bread! The stew's mutton is tender with a deep, rich, savoury flavour that contrast perfectly against the sweet onion, slightly spicy mint and bitter beet leaves. You tear apart the loaf of bread and blissfully inhale the appetising steam it releases as Tialha smiles on.

Before you could taste the bread however you notice a figure making away with your rucksack and staff! You throw the loaf into your bowel (you aren't going to waste it no matter what) and leap at the thief...