COOKING SHOW - 5PM PST - Heart Soldier Senshi

[idolpro]

[ Your unit-colored kitchen has all the basic necessities for cooking, but strangely, there's no refrigerator. There's just a table full of pebble-sized crystals. . . There are candies available in bins next to the crystals as well.

Though you can technically turn the stove on, you can't actually hurt yourself on it. It's like the flames are illusions. Huh.

Upon entering your unit-colored kitchen, you'll find that you can't see or hear anyone from any other kitchen. You're aware that this whole area is magically sight- and sound-proofed; no other unit will hear or see any conversation you have. ]

Comments

Re: Salty

[scattershot]

Well, they wanted salt.

[She sighs.

[She's trying, she really is, but inside? She's angry and frightened and sickened and lost.]

Mayhap it's no surprise they'd drag that one up again. If only they'd tell me aught of the context.

Re: Salty

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah... for real.

[He hesitates - hesitates longer. This time, she can read the hesitance for what it is: caught between concern and the worry that she doesn't want the help, doesn't want him there at all]

[Eventually, though, he offers his hand]

...sorry you keep having to deal with that one.

Re: Salty

[scattershot]

Mayhap it's better that someone knows of it.

[She takes his hand.

[She's grateful for it - for the chance to make the problem a problem shared.]

It's almost easier this way - at least for me. It saves me having to find the words.

Re: Salty

[crossmyheartandhope]

[At the gratitude, some of that nervous tension calms a little, finally; he squeezes her hand]

S'one of the good parts. It helps, sometimes, when things... when it's hard to talk about stuff.

Re: Salty

[scattershot]

Sometimes, you don't want to find the words, do you?

... sometimes, all you really want is for someone to know how you feel. And be okay with it.

Re: Salty

[crossmyheartandhope]

I ain't... the best, sometimes. At talkingt hings out.

[A little thread of shame, sneaking in with the anxiety]

I mess things up a lot.

Re: Salty

[scattershot]

Hurricane... I think we all do. I certainly do, if my memories are anything to go by.

[Good intentions and an inadequate methodolgy, that's me.]

Talking isn't for everyone. Or for every problem.

Re: Salty

[crossmyheartandhope]

Sure, but it's for more of em than you'd think.

Re: Salty

[scattershot]

"No" is a perfectly valid answer if asked if one wants to talk. Or it should be, at any rate.

Re: Salty

[crossmyheartandhope]

Should be don't always mean it is.

Re: Salty

[scattershot]

Mayhap not...

I'm not at all sure I'd know how to describe something like that, anyway. Not without having to stop sobbing out my woes every few moments to explain what a "Bahamut" is, anyway.

Re: Salty

[crossmyheartandhope]

Hey... I ain't gonna make you say nothing you don't wanna.

[Reassurance; he pushes it out her way, careful]

I'm a big fan of not pushing people to talk if they ain't into it.

Re: Salty

[scattershot]

It can't end there. It can't do. My grandfather - mayhap this is all I have of him now, but I know he wouldn't let it end this way. With that thing using him like that...

I don't care how many awful things I have to sit and watch. I have to find out what happened to him, even if it costs me a fortune and takes the rest of the year.

Re: Salty

[crossmyheartandhope]

Hey... hey. You'll figure it out. If you say he wouldn't let it end like this, no one knows better than you, right?

You ever want some points to try and put more stuff together, though, just lemme know. Sounds like the sooner you get some hard proof, the better you're gonna feel.