Flavors, Food Choices, and Menu Planning - Friday, 4th period

[sharp_as_knives]

All the students in the class were getting e-mail that morning:

From: Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Subject: Today's class
Importance: High

Due to the increasingly lethal population of the island, class today will be optional, and held in the gourmet suite of the Arms Hotel. If you choose not to attend, it will not affect your grade; should you choose to show, you will obtain extra credit and be given the opportunity to taste dinosaur meat.

Hannibal wasn't going anywhere today, but if you wanted to, he would feed you.

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Talk to Hannibal!

[never-dull.livejournal.com]

Call out, e-mail out, ask questions before or after.

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[furnaceface]

After his own class, Jonothon made his way to Hannibal's. In part because he'd been invited, yes. In part because, really, it wasn't like he had anything more productive to be doing, besides blowing up radscorpions in the swiftly changing streets.

//So, any success actually doing something with that thing?//

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

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"I went with simple steaks," Hannibal answered. "Since the meat was unfamiliar, and I wanted its own taste forefront. I was able to get it fairly tender."

He set out dishes of that and curled greenery. "Sauteed ferns seemed to be appropriate greenery to accompany it. And lavender shaved ice."

It was a Jurassic theme.

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[furnaceface]

//Sensing a bit of a theme, there,// Jono noted, letting his psi senses move over the whole spread. //Looking forward to sampling it.//

He'd never had... any of the things Hannibal just listed off. This was going to be quite the experience.

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[never-dull.livejournal.com]

"As am I." This island had given him so many wonderful opportunities! "Please, take a seat."

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[furnaceface]

Jonothon was all too happy to, pulling up a nearby chair.

//Gladly. And how has your day been treating you, mate?//

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[never-dull.livejournal.com]

"Quietly, so far." Hannibal made sure everything was set out for as many students as might come, then sat himself. "I'll be heading to the library later, but I spent most of my time so far determining how to cook this. And you?"

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[furnaceface]

//Less quietly,// Jono sighed. //I was hoping that at least some of my students would be sensible enough to not come to class today, whether or not I spelled out for them that it would be ridiculous to make their way in for classes today. I wound up with a handful in the classroom, and a few wandered past in the hallway besides.//

His life was so hard, Hannibal.

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

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"The students here have seen enough that I suspect this may seem routine to some of them," Hannibal said. "Others seem to have little sense of self-preservation. And most teenagers feel they're immortal," he added with a smile.

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[furnaceface]

//Ah, immortality.// Jono would have rolled his eyes, if only he were able. //Learned my lesson about that one, back when. Ish. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by it. After all, I used to be a student here myself.//

And really, his class kind of called out to the students most likely to make terrible life choices, didn't it?

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

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"Has anybody been seriously injured by this latest wave of insanity?" Hannibal asked. He cut himself a bite of the dinosaur steak, but politely waited for Jono's answer first. It seemed rude to interrupt his thoughts with food.

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

[furnaceface]

//As a matter of fact, they have,// Jono replied, a little grimly. //One student of mine, Yeul, has literally no sense of self-preservation. She came into the classroom today bloodied and with torn clothing. She's got potions that'll heal the injuries, but it's a bloody miracle she wasn't completely mauled.//

For all he knew, she could very well have been.

//I think most students have the good sense to avoid the danger, but there are the odd few who just seem incapable of grasping that giant man-eating reptiles,// he gestured to the food, //and harpies and the like are actually dangerous.//

Re: Talk to Hannibal!

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"Most of mine seem not to have that problem," Hannibal noted. His students being either armed, already there, or absent.

He was fairly certain saying that those who weren't careful enough would learn wouldn't be terribly reassuring, so instead he ate the bite of steak, chewing slowly and pulling apart the flavor.