cafeteria | lunch time | tuesday | 29 september

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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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"Thank you," she said as she accepted the sandwich. The charm she wore against her skin didn't heat up, so at least the sandwich wasn't magicked. Not that she'd been worried.

She tore a corner off the sandwich and couldn't resist sniffing it. "You've been trying the food here?" she asked.

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"A little," he admitted, nodding. "I haven't been very adventurous because I don't know what a lot of things are. I just bought something called a toaster the other day. It heats food so I tried heating bread. I tend to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables until I know what things are."

He waved the half of his sandwich, still proud of that accomplishment.

"I tried crackers too." That mess had been...really bad. "That didn't turn out very well."

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"I've not heard of crackers either," she mused. "Jonothon did tell me about toast. What'd bad about crackers?"

She finally popped the piece of sandwich in her mouth and her eyes widened as it didn't like she'd expected it to. Not that she knew what she'd been expecting. "Strange."

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"It's sticky," he said, taking some delight at her reaction considering his had been similar. Afterward, he'd spent time washing down the peanut butter since it was so sticky and still making those faces.

"Crackers are small," he explained, trying to show her with his hands. "And crumbly. When I heated them, they all crumbled in the toaster."

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"Tis," she agreed, blinking and she took another small bite hoping the bread would help get it to unstick. "It isn't bad." She was still trying to decide.

"It didn't break the toaster?"

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"No, the toaster broke the crackers," he said with a slight laugh. "I had a big mess to clean up. Crackers are very crumbly. So, when they broke, they broke into many pieces. My desk was a complete mess."

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She chuckled. "At least you know it now," she reasoned. "Did you like the toasted bread?"

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"Yes," he said, nodding. "Didi showed me how to use a toaster the other day and then told me a few different things I could put on them. Have you ever had jam?"

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Beka nodded, glad to hear one thing she knew. She'd made her piece with the peanut butter, even if some was still sticking to her teeth. "I have, we've got all kinds of flavors."

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"I tried some on toasted bread the other day," he shared. "It was...grape, I believe. And it was sort of lumpy until you spread it out. It was like a different form of fruit with sweetness mixed in. I liked it."

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"It sounds good," she agreed. "And I think the sandwich was good too. If not very strange. Jonothon showed me how to use the fryer and we made apple fritters. Mayhap if I manage to make them right, I can let you taste them."

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"What's an apple fritter?" he asked, interested. Apples were a favorite but he'd only eaten them whole or sliced.

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"I told you about them a while ago," she reminded him, not minding that he'd forgotten. He'd enough to get used to, so had she. "They're slices of apple wrapped in batter that you put in oil. They're delicious."

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"Oh, yes, sorry," he said, smacking his forehead lightly. "There's so many different types of foods that they tend to run together until I've gotten a better handle on different names."

He shook his head at his forgetfulness but was oddly pleased that, once she reminded him, he could find the memory. "You made some, then?"

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She shook her head in amusement at his response. "Yes, telling you about them made me want to eat some. Jonothon showed me how things work in the kitchen, so we tried making them. I left them in the oil too long, though."

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"Were they ruined?" he asked sympathetically. Crackers weren't the same but he knew about failed attempts to cook now.

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"Bit burned on the outside, but they were still edible," she said. "Not as good as the ones they sell on Evening market. I'm not that used to cooking much."

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"I'm not either," he said but he was pretty sure she'd picked that up. "I'd like to learn though so I can do it myself while I'm away from the Village. They cooked there but I never tried."

He'd just been too busy trying to figure everything else out, make sure Gabriel didn't die and hide from any little noise that was made.

"I'd offer to show you something but I barely know anything," he said, smiling a little. "You'd be better learning just about anyone else."

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"Same," she said lightly. She wasn't confident enough to try to explain anything. "I used to help Mama when I was younger, before Lord Gershom took us into his household. There's a cook there and her staff, and as a Dog I've not got time to spent preparing aught."

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"My mother never cooked either," he said, nodding. His mother, so entrenched in Law and Justice, had been too busy sentencing people to Release. "All of our food came from the Food Distribution center. I never wanted to be Assigned to that job but now, I find myself wanting to do it just to know it. It seems like something beneficial for many situations."

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She smiled at him. "You sound like you enjoy it."

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"Well, when I'm not breaking things," he said and laughs. "The crackers were not enjoyable. I'm afraid I'm going to start a fire one of these days but if I don't try, I won't ever know. I can't get everything from books."

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"Don't put metal or plastic in the microwave," she advised. "Tis all I know to avoid fires."

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"I haven't gotten the courage to use that yet," Jonas said thoughtfully. "It's slightly daunting. Have you used it?"

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"If it counts as using when someone's standing beside you telling you what buttons to push," she admitted sheepishly. She'd yet to put the information to use.