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[hot_mess_express]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 63, afternoon
Where:

[So trauma happened. How's the rest of y'all's day?]

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[wontforbidtherain]

[Cat has taken over the kitchen and is cooking. She also has posted a sign 'cooking lessons -- bring your own food'.]

[Currently, she is chopping leeks and fennel.]

[malignstar]

Cooking lessons?

[wontforbidtherain]

Since I'm cooking anyway, I might as well make it a bond. Interested?

[malignstar]

I'm always up for more bonding!

[wontforbidtherain]

Right. What do you already know about cooking?

[malignstar]

[ Holds up one finger ]

I can make a mean soup! And sometimes a pretty good salad. After that, we're more off-script.

[ Basically, he's decent and can ensure nobody starves. ]

[wontforbidtherain]

Well, I'm making stew now, so I don't know what I can teach you.

[malignstar]

I could probably stand to learn some fancy cutting tips, if you've got any.

[wontforbidtherain]

Keep the pieces roughly the same size, regardless of what you are making. They'll cook more evenly.

[malignstar]

That's not bad. But I was hoping for a demonstration.

[ He sets his elbows on the surface and looks back at her expectantly, like a kid waiting for a magic show. ]

better add [bond] to the subject line.

[wontforbidtherain]

Just letting you know what I'm doing.

[and will pick up the knife and a fennel bulb to demonstrate]

[malignstar]

[ Watching with genuine amusement ]

[wontforbidtherain]

What?

[malignstar]

Nothing. I just wanted to see you in your zone.

[wontforbidtherain]

Zone?

[malignstar]

You know the place where you're in total control. All focused on the objective and stuff.

[wontforbidtherain]

Ah. Like when you are performing a ritual.

[malignstar]

Uh, sure, just like that.

[wontforbidtherain]

[finsihes with her vegetables, and starts on the fish.]

How are you doing regarding... all of this?

[malignstar]

All of what?

[tobluerafters]

[Klarion wanders his way into the kitchen, pouting. He pulls up a chair and just sits there, not saying anything, watching as Cat chops her veggies.]

[wontforbidtherain]

Hello. I'm making stew, but it will be a while before it is ready.

[tobluerafters]

That is fine.

[He watches her chop veggies. Chop chop chop.]

[As much as he doesn't want to, his mind wanders back to the trial and he sighs, tilting his head to rest against his arms crossed on the table in front of him.]

... Would you like some help?

[wontforbidtherain]

Thank you, yes. Would you like to peel and chop the potatoes? About so big?

[holds her fingers about an inch apart]

[tobluerafters]

[He nods, allowing himself a moment to focus on the task so he didn't have to think too much. Peeling was... strangely cathartic. Familiar in an unknown way. Maybe it was something he did when he lived with his mother and sister. He really couldn't know, not yet...]

... I found out my name.