alas, it's not omelettes
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castle_perraultHis stay in this castle has gotten a lot longer than expected.
Which is a bit worrying for a variety of different reasons. But then there's the more practical concerns of being trapped in a magical castle, too--like the fact that most of the food to be found so far consists of either fruits from the garden or cakes from the ballroom, mostly. (Cakes with strange not-edible things inside them...) And that's just...not enough, honestly. A growing boy is a perpetually hungry one, and there's a lot to be said for the lack of actual meals lately.
But today Lucas finally stumbles into a kitchen in his wanderings. It's disappointingly ghost-free, much the way the rest of the castle has been--he wonders what Duster would think of all this--but still, the room is large, and there are pots and utensils hung across the walls, and vegetables in the cabinets. ...Perfectly fresh vegetables. Which is pretty odd, but...everything else about this place is odd already. Lucas sets them out on the counter anyway.
Because he does know how to cook, a bit. Flint would often be away for multiple days at a time, and so Lucas is mostly self-taught, using advice from fellow villagers and experimenting a bit on his own...after three years, putting together a decent vegetable stew isn't too hard at all. There's a wood stove that's easy enough to light a fire in, and there's water here and a large pot there...
And so visitors might be drawn in by a faint but pleasant smell, wafting through the open kitchen doorway. Lucas is found standing at a counter (on top of a tall stool, so that he can actually reach everything), carefully chopping more assorted vegetables with a knife while a large pot simmers gently on the stove nearby. He's humming to himself very softly, but is otherwise absorbed in deep concentration as he tries to get these vegetable chunks just the right size, and doesn't notice anyone coming in or watching just yet.
Which is a bit worrying for a variety of different reasons. But then there's the more practical concerns of being trapped in a magical castle, too--like the fact that most of the food to be found so far consists of either fruits from the garden or cakes from the ballroom, mostly. (Cakes with strange not-edible things inside them...) And that's just...not enough, honestly. A growing boy is a perpetually hungry one, and there's a lot to be said for the lack of actual meals lately.
But today Lucas finally stumbles into a kitchen in his wanderings. It's disappointingly ghost-free, much the way the rest of the castle has been--he wonders what Duster would think of all this--but still, the room is large, and there are pots and utensils hung across the walls, and vegetables in the cabinets. ...Perfectly fresh vegetables. Which is pretty odd, but...everything else about this place is odd already. Lucas sets them out on the counter anyway.
Because he does know how to cook, a bit. Flint would often be away for multiple days at a time, and so Lucas is mostly self-taught, using advice from fellow villagers and experimenting a bit on his own...after three years, putting together a decent vegetable stew isn't too hard at all. There's a wood stove that's easy enough to light a fire in, and there's water here and a large pot there...
And so visitors might be drawn in by a faint but pleasant smell, wafting through the open kitchen doorway. Lucas is found standing at a counter (on top of a tall stool, so that he can actually reach everything), carefully chopping more assorted vegetables with a knife while a large pot simmers gently on the stove nearby. He's humming to himself very softly, but is otherwise absorbed in deep concentration as he tries to get these vegetable chunks just the right size, and doesn't notice anyone coming in or watching just yet.
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Date: 2016-01-26 08:28 pm (UTC)That kind of pie is great, and apples are easy to find, so she doesn't have to waste time looking for things to go into the pie when she could be eating it. She makes a face, remembering what happened when she said "blueberry."
While neither Grune nor Sophie are particularly loud, stone hallways tend to draw sound, and so their approach shouldn't be much of a surprise to Lucas--unless, of course, he's concentrating hard.
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Date: 2016-01-29 06:19 am (UTC)And then there are faces in the doorway to match, and Lucas brightens, turning on top of his stool to face the two. "Oh--hello, Grune. And Sophie too..." Two friends at once, that's pretty lucky. He glances thoughtfully to his carrots, and back to them again. "Were you guys going to cook something? I can move out of the way if you need me to..."
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Date: 2016-01-29 04:55 pm (UTC)"Hello, Lucas! Don't worry--you don't need to move. We can wait. Right, Sophie?"
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Date: 2016-01-29 04:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-01-30 06:23 am (UTC)"You don't really need to wait, though...there's a lot of room in here. I could use other counters. Did you guys mention--something about pie, back there?" He shrugs slightly, turning mostly to Sophie towards the end. "It's vegetable soup, mostly. I found a lot of fresh ones in the cabinet over there..."
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Date: 2016-01-30 06:00 pm (UTC)Tauriel said she had left some in one of the cupboards. She hopes she remembered not to put them way high up. (There are so many tall people here....)
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Date: 2016-01-30 06:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-02-14 03:18 am (UTC)But he perks up when Sophie mentions the apples. "Oh, yes--I think they were over here? Hold on." He gives Grune a small smile as she starts setting up shop on a nearby counter, and then moves to the cupboard in question--which is, fortunately, low enough to reach into. He pulls the basket of apples out promptly, bringing them over to Grune's counter.
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Date: 2016-02-14 05:59 am (UTC)She glances past him. "Sophie, could you start washing these for me, please?"
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Date: 2016-02-14 06:01 am (UTC)Sophie calls up her eres; when her fingernails are glowing, she takes the basket from Gee Girl. The basket is a bit big, but she still manages to carry it outside to the pump without spilling a single apple.
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Date: 2016-02-15 05:51 am (UTC)Well then. Lucas drifts back over to his own counter, rearranging his carrots before taking up his knife again. "It's nice to see you again, Grune. Do you use this kitchen a lot?"
Sophie will be a bit, so it's just gonna be Grune for a few replies.
Date: 2016-02-17 08:13 pm (UTC)