cafeteria | lunch time | tuesday | 29 september

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

After his success with toast last week, Jonas had spent his free time trying his toaster out with a few other things. He'd found that bread worked well but crackers did not. That had been a gigantic mess and Jonas had felt sheepish enough to not touch the toaster for a few days.

But, he'd gotten over that and tried bread again, this time adding peanut butter once the bread had been toaster and packing it for a lunch. So, that's where he was now, prodding experimentally at the sandwich and wondering if he should eat the apple first. The apple was green, something he hadn't seen before but he'd been assured it was ripe.

Food examination and consumption was a lengthy process for Jonas but he enjoyed it. Food was a small but integral part of his memory that he was building.

[cafeteria's open, yep]

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[glacial_queen]

Karla appreciated the cafeteria; it fed her when no one else was cooking and she didn't have time to run to town to eat. The food wasn't great, but it was still better than anything she could have cooked on her own.

...Except the cookies, of course.

Loading up her tray with more food than one would expect a skinny little thing like her to eat, she glanced around for a place to sit. And spotted Jonas.

"Kiss kiss," she greeted as she approached his table. "Mind if I join you?"

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"Not at all," he said, gesturing toward the other chair with his arm. "Hello, Karla. How are you?"

[glacial_queen]

"Better now that I'm not a male," Karla said with a wry grin, this morning's class still on her mind. "Yourself?"

She couldn't help giving his lunch a dubious look as she took the proffered chair. "I'm willing to share," she added. Surely no one could survive on a peanut butter sandwich and an apple for lunch. "If you're still hungry after your sandwich I mean."

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"I made it myself," he said, still proud of that fact even if it was a shoddy looking sandwich. "With a toaster. I haven't tried it yet though because I don't know whether it'll be any good."

Amazingly, it probably wouldn't be terrible but he was still a little nervous about eating something he'd made without any supervision.

"I'm all right," he said, answering her first question. "And thank you for the offer. I've eaten less than this and been fine before. It's not enough?"

Well, no, he'd eaten less and almost died but there were other factors there.

[glacial_queen]

"What's a toaster?" Karla asked. Most appliances that dealt with cooking were still foreign to her. "Though good job on making your sandwich!"

She was completely sincere in her praise. Bad things tended to happen when she tried to cook. Like fires. And pine-nut 'cookies.'

Karla looked at his meager lunch again. "I don't know, it might be?" she said. "I'm not very good at gauging how much others would want to eat. I guess we could see when you're done?"

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"A toaster is an appliance," he said, illustrating the size with his hands, "that heats up different things. It toasts bread and other things. It changes the texture and the taste of them. It's very easy to use."

Save for crackers.

"I've eaten less," he said, rolling the apple under his fingers. "I wasn't very hungry this morning but I did want to eat. You look very hungry."

[glacial_queen]

"Oh," Karla said, nodding. "I think I know the one you mean. It's easy, you said? Hmmm..."

Jonas, when smoke comes pouring out of the Common Room and the toaster is broken, you have no one but yourself to blame.

Karla glanced down at her tray--the food already rapidly disappearing--and gave a wry grin. "I'm always hungry," she admitted. "It comes from wearing the Sapphire. It speeds up my metabolism so much that I have to eat. I lose weight pretty quickly."

The memory of the other Karla intruded for a moment, but she shoved that away. "I don't have a lot to lose now, so I try to make sure I eat as much as I can."

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"Sapphire?" he asked, vaguely knowing the word but never associating with things like food and digestion before. Those things just didn't fit together in his scattershot selection of memories.

[glacial_queen]

In his defense, they normally didn't go together. At least not in this world.

Karla tugged on the chain to her pendant, pulling it out from under her shirt. Dangling from the end of the chain was a teardrop-shaped Sapphire roughly half the size of her thumb "In my world, people do Craft--magic--and the strength of their Craft is related to the Jewel they wear. There are thirteen Jewel ranks. The darker--that is, more powerful--the Jewel, the more of an affect it'll have on the wearer, especially when that person is young. Speeding up the metabolism is just one of the effects."

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

"It's not going to bite you." Diana informed the random guy she didn't know as she came into the cafeteria and headed over to study the food for level's of eatability.

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

Jonas looked up and laughed a little, still feeling sheepish. "I didn't think it would. I made it myself. I'm just hesitant to eat it."

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

Diana nodded sagely and ignored the falling herbs near her. "That's always a good reason to be hesitant. Wha'd you do to it?"

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"Toasted the bread," he provided, picking it up and, once again, testing the how toasted bread felt different than untoasted. "And there's peanut butter on it. That's all I did. But, it's the first time I've done something like that."

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

"That's not that dangerous." Diana decided and came over with a tray of fruit and what she was pretty sure was a salad. "Unless the peanut butter split or turned or something."

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"It's just the first time I've ever cooked something myself," he said even if all he'd done was toasted the bread and applied peanut butter. "I know it's not dangerous. I'm just hesitant in case I've done it wrong."

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

"Ooooh." Diana sat down across the table. Asking if she could? Nah! "It looks edible."

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"It does," he agreed with a nod. "And if I let it sit too long, the heat will all go away, defeating the purpose of toasting it. I suppose it can't be too awful though. It doesn't smell bad."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"Is the food that bad, you'd brought your own?" Beka wondered. She'd spotted him with his food and wondered if mayhap she should eat outside of school today. "Hello, Jonas."

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Beka," he said, grinning up at her. "I made it myself. It's the first time I've done that."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She smiled back before her gaze drifted to the sandwich. "So what did you make?"

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"It's called a peanut butter sandwich," he supplied, picking it up and showing her the peanut butter from the sides, "but I toasted the bread because I was practicing. That melted the peanut butter some. I haven't tried it yet."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"I've not heard of peanut butter before," she said, eyeing the sandwich curiously. "Is it good?" Twas a good thing Jonothon had explained toast to her.

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"I don't know yet," he laughed, rubbing the back of his neck and blushing. "I'm nervous so I haven't tried it yet. It's the first thing I've made myself and it's making me nervous. Would you like half?"

[not a problem!]

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She chuckled. "Are you offering so you can make sure it won't kill you?" she teased him.

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"No," he said and laughed again, shaking his head. "No, of course not. It's so you can taste peanut butter. I've only had it once and I don't describe things very well until I've experienced them a few times."