02 | they should worry

[alephbet]

Characters: Aleph and you!
Setting: Floors 25, 14, 3, and 1
Format: Action brackets, can change to prose if asked.
Summary: Aleph relaxes, offends people's eardrums, and learns to cook.
Warnings: Nothing so far!

[Floor 25]
[Aleph was quickly finding out that the one thing the tower was short of, apart from 'exits', 'safety', or 'peace of mind', was 'things to do'.

This may have been one reason why he was sitting in the meadow making a daisy chain.

The other reason... well, he'd just never been in a place this green before. Arcadia didn't count.]

[Floor 14]
[Having set up a karaoke machine in the media room, Aleph naturally decided to practice on it a little. It was fun, it was relaxing, it was enjoyable. No problem, right?

There is one thing about Aleph that a fair number of demons could tell you after an unfortunate attempt at winning them over...

Aleph could not sing.

His voice defied the previous definition of 'off-key'. It made 'off-key' sound like the opera instead. This was just plain bad any way you looked at it.

Oblivious, Aleph would continue to sing until someone stopped him or threw something at his head.]

[Floor 3]
[The books Aleph gathered up in one large pile were all about cooking. Basic cooking, nothing too advanced. After carrying them over to a table, he would just flip through them, stopping on recipes at random. Bother him?]

[Floor 1]
[And after that, of course Aleph went to try to cook something. It wasn't going well, though, and the first... whatever it was supposed to be that he pulled out of the oven was a total mess.]

...I guess I should go back over the recipe.

Comments

[fusedstars]

I'll assume you require some help here. [No way was he going to have supplies whittle down.]

[alephbet]

I would appreciate that, thank you. I was using this recipe book. [He indicates a basic cookbook on the counter.]

[fusedstars]

[He went over to inspect, flipping through some of the pages with a frown. He had used his own little cookbook, so seeing this was a real surprise. The instructions were, well...]

This is unreliable. It fails to even grasp the concept of getting the best results, only the bare minimum, or worse.

[alephbet]

No wonder it turned out so badly. What should I be using instead?

[fusedstars]

Depends. What exactly were you trying to make?

[He couldn't even tell what in the hell that thing was supposed to be.]

[alephbet]

Lasagna.

[fusedstars]

...Then why is there a hand sticking out?

[A small creature's hand, yes, but it...what the heck was that!?]

[alephbet]

I'm... not sure. That's not usually supposed to be there.

[fusedstars]

....Just take it and dump it in the trash. We'll make a new dish.

[alephbet]

Good idea. I'm not risking eating that.

[Into the trash it goes.]

[fusedstars]

[And as he did that, Hei went to check on the food supplies. Lasagna was simple to make in his mind, so the ingredients shouldn't be hard to find. At least until he realized something.]

This place lacks the ingredients for lasagna.

[alephbet]

...No... wonder it didn't turn out well?

Actually, isn't some of this stuff they have poisonous?

[fusedstars]

It would appear so. Actually, around dinner, there are numerous dishes that can prove fatal, even prepared correctly.

[alephbet]

I'll try to avoid those.

[fusedstars]

For now, let's just trying starting with something simple and filling. [Hei is looking over the ingredients, but hey, Aleph can also help, namely by saying what he desired.]

[alephbet]

How simple is simple?

[He can make sandwiches.]

[fusedstars]

I had managed to save some deer meat from last week. If you wish, we can cook it up and you can have that.

[alephbet]

That sounds simple enough to cook.

[fusedstars]

[He nods, and pulls out said meat. Not too large, but quite enough to make about 4 or so burgers, if one wanted them, and from too slabs of meat. He places them the grill, and even pulls out a pair of tongs.]

I already seasoned them, so it's just a matter of flipping them on their sides, and applying pressure to cook certain sections if they are not getting enough heat.

[alephbet]

I'm sure I can do that much. [Hopefully.]

[fusedstars]

Then I'll leave it you. [And he hands Aleph the tongs. Best to learn by hand after all.]

[alephbet]

[To his credit, Aleph can handle flipping over a burger with ease. It's not that hard.]

[fusedstars]

In any case, you'll have to forgive my lack of an introduction. My name is Hei. Who are you?

[alephbet]

Aleph. Nice to meet you, Hei.