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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[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"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."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"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."

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"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."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

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

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"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."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

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

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

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

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"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.

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"What sort of things does it do?" Jonas wondered. "I've seen one but I haven't used it."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"It heats things up," Beka said. "Jonothon used it to thaw sommat frozen and it can heat up your drinks. There's meals that can be heated up in it too."

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"Doesn't the stove do that?" Jonas asked, slightly confused.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"Yes," she said slowly. "I think it's easier to use." She wasn't certain. Mayhap she should have asked Jonothon that part.

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"I haven't used either but they sound similar," he agreed with a slight nod. "Perhaps I'll just stick to the toaster and fruits. I seem to be able to manage those."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She grinned as she leaned back in her chair, considering him. "You do seem content with your toasting Gift."

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"Until I burn myself, that is," he laughed. "It's come close to happening a few times already."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She bit her lip, suppressing the bubble of laughter and the haughty posture disappeared as she leaned forward once more. "We'd not want that. I don't know if this place has skilled Healers."

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"We wouldn't want that," he agreed, grinning at her movements. "I dropped a piece of bread on the floor because it was so hot when it came out of the toaster. My fingertips turned red. I wouldn't know what to do if I got burned. I've never had one of those before."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"You'd want to put cold water on it, cool the wound down," she said. "Tis all I know. There's magical ointments if you can't see a Healer, but I don't know if they have them here." Mayhap she needed to ask Emma what they were supposed to do in case someone got injured.

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"In the Community, everything was treated with medicine," he shared, thinking back to those times. "Everything. There were very few injuries but the ones that did occur, you were given relief-of-pain medication and that eased it."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"That's lucky," she mused. "Healers cost a lot of coin and there's always sommat that goes wrong in the Lower City. The Dogs have good mages to fix us up if sommat happens on duty, but most aren't as lucky."

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"Magic can heal too?" he asked. He remembered the word mage from a previous conversation with her but learning the extent of what different types of magic users could do was amazing.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She nodded. "It can do a lot of things. Healers are important. They make a Dog's life easier." At least at first. When you were young and you'd not had been healed so much that your body grew immune to the magic.