[The ladies head back home, with Potato Girl in charge of cooking, Christa in charge of washing the goods, Ymir & Mikasa prep the ingredients, and Hanji was grinding medicines in a mortar & pestel for first aid purposes.
You had the stealthy assignment of seasoning the hares Sasha had hidden away, gutting and stuffing them with aromatics, but it was missing some essential seasonings]
Aiden Darren: Okay, this food is missing some spices.
Anyone willing to follow me to the basement?
Usually I'd go by myself, but it'd be more efficient with human help.
Hanji ZoΔ: I'll go.
I can always grind these later on.
[Riding on her shoulder, you guide her to the rubble filled section which held the buried Basement Bulkhead]
AD: Here we are...
Hang on...π[With a wave of your hand, you moved away the rubble, revealing the cellar doors]
HZ: You're definitely telling me how you did that afterwards.
AD: Very well.
[Entering the basement, you sling a flame to fly around the basement, lighting every candle for much needed light until it returns to your hand to extinguish it]
HZ: Add that to the list.
AD: The spices should be in that corner.
There's so much stuff down here...
Books, models, diagrams, artifacts, armors, weapons, stuff I have no clue what it is...
It's like a treasure trove...
AD: No, all our treasure is in the opposite corner.
HZ: WHA!?
AD: And it's property of the Darren Family, so I better not see a single coin or jewel missing!
HZ: Very well...
AD: Actually, now that this is accessible to you humans, I'll make sure none of you even know where it is...
π[With a few claps of your hand, you put an illusion on your Family's wealth, disguising it as broken crates]
HZ: What did you just do right now?
AD: We'll add it to the list.
HZ: I appreciate it... Now let's get those spices.
[Hanji was astonishing with the quality, quantity & variety of the spices in your basement. You're sure there are at least a handful of spices she hasn't even heard of]
AD: Let me grab some oil & vinegar and that should be enough.
HZ: Let's head back up to the others.
[Back on her shoulder, she walks back to the other ladies]
ππ
Sasha Braus: I don't know what seasonings you have, but they smell is amazing...
The broth and vegetables are at a rolling boil, so feel free to throw in those spices.
AD: Not so fast!
My mom taught me a little trick to bringing out the most from spices.
[With a handful of ground black pepper, you heated your hand enough to toast it, then tossed it into the pot, repeating several times with other seasonings]
π²
πππππ
Women: *Mmm...*
Mikasa Ackerman: That smell...
Christa Lenz: Smells so yummy!
SB:ππ Chef's kiss!
Ymir: Damn, that smells good...
AD: Hey uh, what's with that pile of bones?
SB: Oh that? That's just from all the rations we had here.
I managed to convince Captain Levi that I could use them to make stock, so he agreed not to toss them.
Why?
AD: You could make some Gnome Jelly with that & the berries we found.
Women: Gnome Gelly?
AD: It's not made with gnomes, but rather they developed it as a magical dessert.
Ymir: Magic?
Magic's not real.
AD: You say that when you know a guy who can spontaneously construct a titan with a bolt of lightning just by biting himself.
You wanna tell me how that's possible in a scientific sense?
Ymir:...
AD: Magic is absolutely real...
Us dwellers are innately gifted with an array of magic, just like the other small folk before us, and the other beings of the old world.
Hell, even humans were said to be able to wield magic eons ago, but mpst had to learn how to channel it unlike other creatures of mystical sentience...
My grandpa figured that the humans back then abandoned it for the pursuit of technology.
CL: Magic is real...
AD: Anyways, I'll make some Gnome Gelly.
[Boiling the bones, you take a portion of the hot, liquid gelatin into a dish, mixed in some sugar, berry juice & fruit, then used magic to cool the concoction]
Done...
π
...
ππππππππππ
Crap! The men are coming back!
CL: What do we do?
SB: Where do we hide him?
MA: Wait, where'd he go?
AD:πI'm still here. Just used my illusion magic to become invisible.
I'm going to hide in Sasha's ponytail.
Ymir: Well, that works.
...
Commander Erwin Smith: Evening ladies.
Captain Levi(Ackerman): Whatever being cooked here smells divine.
Eren Jaeger & Armin Arlelt: Hey Mikasa.
MA: Hey guys.
How'd the hunt go?
Jean Kirschtein: Great.
Conny Springer: Terrible.
SB:[Sarcastically] Terrible?
Whatever do you mean by that?
Jean said as men, your natural hunters, far superior to a lowly huntress such as myself.
JK:π‘
I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW WE CAUGHT SOMETHING TO EAT, POTATO GIRL!!
πͺπ₯[Seeing atop her head, you see Sasha draw a chef's knife to Jean's throat]
SB: Call me "Potato Girl" again, and I'll mince your ass up and feed you to a titan myself...
ES: Recruit, stand down.
LA: Let's not interfere, Erwin...
This is some bad blood that they need to settle...
Berthold Hoover: She not really gonna kill him, right?
Reiner Braun: Don't underestimate her...
She's got more balls than most men...
JK: Hmph!
You wouldn't da-
πͺ[Sasha twirled the blade near Jean's long face, drawing blood from his ear and trimming some of his hair, then bringing the tip to his groin]
SB: Come again?
CL: STOP!
Please...
I know you two didn't get along all that well back at the academy, but we've been through too much, lost too many friends before they even had a chance to graduate to act like this!
We all haven't eaten as well as we'd like for a few days, but we can't turn on each other like bratty children...
So please, let's-
*Gurgle*
[The passionate blonde was interrupted by her own stomach]
Everyone:...
...
MA:π
Everyone(-AD):π
[With laughter, the tension had completely dissipated]
SB: Jean, I'm... I'm sorry...
JK: Don't apologize, I've been such a jerk...
Especially since Marco... Since he...
SB: I know.
Sooo, you said you actually caught something?
CS: Actually, Armin caught something.
BH: "Caught" is a little bit of an exaggeration...
RB: More like he crushed it...
AA: I didn't crush it on purpose, I tripped and fell on it by accident...
It's a...
It was just a little hare... No bigger than a boot...
π₯ I think it was a baby... It didn't even die right away, I think I crippled it...
Captain Levi had to end it's suffering...
SB: So, where is it?
[Levi laid a little hare corpse on a dinning table]
Armin, that's not a hare, that's a rabbit.
AA: There's a difference?
SB: Yeah...
The biggest one being that rabbits are smaller than hares.
AA: So, you mean...?
SB: Yep!
It's just an adult rabbit.
AA: Oh, thank God...
I'm gonna go wash up...
Pretty sure I got some rabbit pellets stuck to me...
[Armin leaves]
EJ: Is that really a rabbit?
SB: Oh, hell no. This is definitely a young hare, not a rabbit.
Looks like this one won't make it to mating season...
I just didn't want to make him more upset...  | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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