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week 7, saturday

[reconnective]

[GUESS WHAT IDIOT ISN'T IN HIS UNIFORM ANYMORE? instead, when cloud's wandering around he'll find himself perhaps passing by the restaurant and the kitchen where sora seems to be cooking? whatever it is, it smells good. but he feels like someone's close by so he looks up and lifts his head to smile at cloud.]

...congratulations.

[skyagain]

Didn't really do much overall.

[ don't congratulate him!! but he'll come over to see what sora is doing ]

Finally getting to cook, huh?

[reconnective]

Yeah. I figured I finally have time to really experiment and see what I can do before we go. Are you hungry?

[he is making some kind of stew or curry. he hasn't quite decided yet.]

[skyagain]

Yeah, actually.

[ he was busy and did not eat all day, so he's looking curiously at sora cooking. he ... cannot cook. ]

Can help cut if you want. [ but nothing else. ]

[reconnective]

Cool. [he nudges over a knife and some veggies.] Bite-sized pieces. It'll give me time for the meat and the glaze.

[cooking, cooking...]

...it's nice to have something to do. Keep busy. Stuff I'm good at, at least.

[skyagain]

[ he's pretty good with the knife! unsurprisingly! but also in the prepping food stance, which is maybe a little more surprising. ]

Been a bit since you got to do more than read and take notes, huh? [ not to mention The Void ]

[reconnective]

[it is a little surprising, but he says nothing about it while he kind of watches cloud from the corner of his eye.]

Yeah. I was hoping to go and do some other stuff around here, but our options are a little more limited suddenly. [funny.] But Meow Wow and I went for a walk earlier and now here we are. I

[skyagain]

Could've gone for a dip in the pool, too. [ it's a little joke. because he's an island boy. but cloud picks another vegetable to cut, seemingly not thinking about it ] Most of the stuff in the hotel wasn't that interesting. You're not missing out on much.

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I did think about it. [stop he is an island boy.] But I didn't think it'd feel the same.

[he makes a face though.]

Some of the rooms weren't that bad. More options than we had before.

[skyagain]

Name one that you really wanted to go to, then.

[ he will find a way to say it was bad!!! he's helping ]

[reconnective]

I liked the Solarium. I didn't get to spend enough time there while I could. And because the library opened up the same time as the simulations room, I had to spend more time there than anywhere else.

[skyagain]

... I'll give you that. The Solarium was nice. About as close as we got to real sunlight, anyway.

[ he's finished cutting the veggies!! they are in a neat little pile. he stares at them ]

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Yup. I tried to spend as much time as I could...I've missed it. [the veggies are done and he grins, grabbing them from the pile to start sprinkling them in.]

You'll eat these, right? I don't have to add a bunch in. [cloud why are you staring at them...]

[skyagain]

It's fine. I'm not picky. [ he was staring because he didn't know what to do with them. like a kid when you give them a task and they finish and kind of go "now what..." ] What are you making?

[reconnective]

That's good at least. [means it's less having to overcompensate.] It's beef bourguignon...? I haven't made it much, so figured some practice would be fine. And there's enough of it to share with whoever wants some.

[skyagain]

... Right.

[ he has no idea what that is but there's beef and veggies in it, sure. ]

[reconnective]

[yeah he just laughs.]

Little Chef was really particular about the kind of stuff that got served at the bistro, and he was even more particular about how it was made. [he says all of this while he's cooking.]

[skyagain]

Little Chef?

[ the name sounds familiar but he cannot be expected to remember all the weird shit he learned or overheard from sora talking to people. the sad shit was easier to remember because it was depressing. ]

Is that who taught you how to cook?

[reconnective]

Yeah. [he sounds light and cheerful.] He's a friend we met recently. We rescued him from a bunch of Heartless in Traverse Town, but when we went to see Uncle Scrooge at his new restaurant we found out Little Chef was like his partner who was coming up with the recipes and making the dishes. He just needed some extra hands. So...I said yes.

[skyagain]

[ sora not mentioning it's a rat is so funny

anyway he nods at that ]

Lucky coincidence, then. For both of you. [ he's watching sora cook meanwhile because he has no idea what the fuck hes doing ]

[reconnective]

[STOP NO ONE ASKS AND HE THINKS IT'S FINE.]

It was, yeah. It helped us out a lot, too, so we could make stuff while we were traveling and find ingredients in all kinds of worlds to learn new stuff. I've actually learned a lot from him? Even if sometimes it's hard to understand him.

[cooking...]

This should almost be done.

[skyagain]

Why's he hard to understand? Too many technical terms?

[ why would anyone ask WHAT SPECIES WAS YOUR COOK TEACHER, please. cloud's nodding at that cooking line like sure! it looks about done! he has no idea. ]

[reconnective]

Oh, uh...he doesn't really talk? He mostly just pulls my hair and points at stuff and I figure it out as we go.

[cooking!!!! give it a few more minutes for the veggies to soften and he turns down the heat.]

Grab a plate.

[skyagain]

... He pulls your hair?

[ henwo? but he grabs two plates. sora also eat. ]

[reconnective]

Only sometimes! Usually I can guess. [there are two plates, and he's dishing up dinner for both of them before sliding over the plate and a spoon.]

Try this and see what you think.