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[honededge]

Who: Talon (honededge) and OPEN!
What: Talon picks up a new hobby (feeshing) and tries his hand at cooking.
When: IC dates May 1st-5th
Where: Beach, Amnesta Forest (Lake), Kitchen (Higher number loop).
Warnings: Fish gutting/scaling?



i. Beach; Feeshing.

[It's fucking HOT.]

[None the less, Talon is out on the beach as the sun begins to set, wearing a white t-shirt and blue jeans from the newcomer's clothing pile. You can find him sitting cross-legged in the sand with a fishing rod in hand and a tackle box by his side. He definitely doesn't regret choosing this hobby. It's quite peaceful, really. Besides, he knows he'll bring back food if he's successful, and that makes him feel like he's helping.]

[The only downside is that his mind has time to wander, out here in the silence. He stares out over the water, fixed on the horizon. The deep set frown is just a side effect of thinking too much, don't let it dissuade you from approaching him.]

ii. Lake; Feeshing.

[Same deal, really, just in the forest, perched on a rock on the shore, and closer to the late afternoon. The shade helps keep him cool, so he gets an earlier start here. It's hard to sneak up on him through the foliage. Without looking he calls out:]

Hey. Any idea what time it is?

iii. Kitchen; Cooking - cw: gutting/scaling/de-boning of fish

[It's true, he doesn't cook very often. And when he does, it's instant or pre-packaged crap. So fixing fresh fish is not something he's used to. But how hard can it be, to scale and pick the bones out of a fish?]

[Very hard. Extremely hard. There are shreds of fish everywhere and scales stuck to his bare arms. Help.]

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kitchen

[dragonmouth]

[ For once in her life, Tali has managed to not fuck up cooking. It's shrimp and cashews simmered in coconut milk with ginger and lemongrass. It smells pretty good.

Then she sees Talon fucking up this fish cleaning and... oh god. Please, please no. ]

...having trouble?

Re: kitchen

[honededge]

[Don't judge him, he is Trying His Best.]

Never touched a fish in my life. Can you tell?

[The last part is said bitterly as he picks a few scales off his hand and flicks them into the sink. Next time, he'll stick the fish he catches in the freezer and call it a goddamn day.]

[dragonmouth]

...as a matter of fact, I can.

[ She really didn't mean to be mean. ]

I'm hardly an expert myself, but...perhaps I could be of some assistance.

[honededge]

[Don't worry, no offense was taken. He knows when he's beat. Even if he's been beat by a bright purple salmon-looking fish with cat whiskers.]

You want to take over or are you the "teach a man to fish" type?

[dragonmouth]

I suppose I could try...

[ She does vaguely remember how Ama used to do this. She'll just...take this knife, here. ]

[honededge]

[Talon steps back, hands up in placation/defeat. He knows better than to get in the way of a girl with a knife. Especially this one. That's right, he's seen you at work, Tali. He's in the kitchens a lot, being mildly amazed by the sheer amount of fresh food and snacking on fruit.]

So, you do a lot of cooking, huh?

[dragonmouth]

Well, I'm no good with the stove... or the other appliances.

[ This is at least true, she's horribly fucked up every recipe she's made so far that wasn't the shrimp, or that involved more than "cut up and artfully arrange food". ]

But I'm trying to improve.

[honededge]

Hey, can't get better without practice.

[He leans back against the counter, watching her carefully.]

I'm complete garbage at cooking. Most of what I had back home was instant.

[dragonmouth]

I hadn't even learned much of anything until recently.

Although... once I'd set off with the other Champions, Amatai was good at working with whatever we'd manage to hunt or forage, if we couldn't procure it from the shops. One time we slew a crab the size of a small house.

[ There were seven of them, but it still took them days to work through all that crab. ]

[honededge]

Bet you were pretty sick of crab after that, huh?

[He tries to picture a crab that big. Maybe an awakened crab of some sort, but like. Damn.]

You were an adventurer of some sort back home, then?

[dragonmouth]

We actually had to give most of it to a nearby village. I suppose we could have eaten more, but... as you'd said, we'd grow sick of it.

It was too much to carry.

And... I suppose you could say that? Although it's only been the past few months of my life.

[honededge]

What'd you do before that? If you don't mind me asking. Just trying to get to know the girl with the knife standing a few feet away from me, ha.

[Have an awkward chuckle, his specialty.]

[dragonmouth]

My mother was the queen of our realm.

[ So. Actual princess. ]

A glamorous lifestyle, to be sure, but... I was dying to escape her eye.

[honededge]

Oh.

[Glamorous lifestyle? Can't relate.]

At least you made it out? Of home, I mean.

[dragonmouth]

You could say that.

I hadn't much occasion to leave the capital before, but... it's been quite the year.

[honededge]

Weren't looking for as much adventure as you found?

[His tone is amused, and a little bitter, but his smile is sympathetic.]

[dragonmouth]

I suppose that's one way of putting it.

[honededge]

[There's a long moment where Talon is silent, unsure how to follow up. So instead he turns his attention to the fish.]

How goes the fish...uh...de-messing?