6th Recipe - Scrambled Eggs [Open]

[starofpleiades]

Characters: Kazumi and You!
Setting: The cafeteria
Format: Action
Summary: Finding the issue with the languages, Kazumi decides to use the universal language: food!
Warnings: None so far

[Kazumi had never really thought that much before about the fact that everyone here could talk to each other... but now, suddenly they can't! Somehow, the Tower sounds noisier than ever as all the talking becomes a cacophony of different languages. Still, people would need to eat so... maybe they could all agree on that at least, without a need for words? Whipping up an array of dishes - casserole, curry, pastas... all unfortunately kind of orange due to the weird food dye this month - Kazumi was keeping busy. Of course, the newest addition to the kitchen wasn't helping]

Ah, Toto! Don't play with that!

[Unfortunately, the cat didn't understand Japanese any better than the kitchen workers today, so the scruffy black critter was happy to push over the canister of sugar and spill it all over the floor.]

Comments

[worldend_dominator]

A cat...

[Rosa had just noticed the cacophony of confused foreign languages echoing around the Tower. However, she believes the cafeteria workers would understand her if she pointed to what she wanted.]

[The last thing she expected to see darting around the cafeteria, though, was a cat.]

[starofpleiades]

Oh, hello! Sorry about the mess...

[Kazumi hurriedly scoops up the cat, looking for where she can put him with his sugary paws so she can clean up]

[worldend_dominator]

Is he yours?

[She notices the girl's garb.]

And are you the cook for today?

[Thankfully, they were both speaking Japanese.]

[starofpleiades]

Yeah, he is! He just arrived here recently...

Eheh, sort of! I mean, I'm down here to cook a lot of days... my name's Kazumi! And this is Toto. [She takes one of Toto's paws to make him wave at the woman]

[worldend_dominator]

...Kazumi?

[She smiles.]

I never had the chance to properly thank you. I am Rosa, if you still remember.

[She leans down at Toto.]

Hello, Toto.

[starofpleiades]

Ah, Rosa! Eheh... so this is what you really look like! And, well, this is me!

I'm glad we finally got to meet in the right bodies.

[worldend_dominator]

Me too. And I'm glad I got to meet Toto on top of that.

[She wishes Maria were here so she could show the girl the black cat. Maria liked black cats, supposedly because they were connected to witches.]

[starofpleiades]

Heheh... would you like to hold him? Actually, it'd be a big help if you could...

[Kazumi brushes off the cat's sugared feet before holding him out hopefully to Rosa; it'd let her clean up a lot faster if she did]

[worldend_dominator]

[She slowly reaches for him.]

Does he scratch?

[starofpleiades]

Mm, he shouldn't! He's usually pretty nice.

[Once Rosa takes the cat, who only squirms a little, Kazumi gets to work cleaning up the mess on the floor]

Thanks, I'll just take a second!

[worldend_dominator]

[Rosa's luck with cats, though, is about the same as her luck with children. It was perfectly fine for the first minute or two...and then it started scratching her arms.]

Ow!

[She tries to adjust the way she is holding it, but it just tries to scratch her face instead. Somehow or another, it manages to squirm out of her arms and climb onto her head.]

Hey...woah...

[She is wobbling around a bit now.]

[starofpleiades]

Ah, no! Bad, Toto!

[So much for perfect behavior... setting aside the dustpan and broom, Kazumi reaches up to try to take him off Rosa's head]

Come here, you bad kitty...

[worldend_dominator]

[Rosa does her best to lower her head so Kazumi can grab the cat. However, it start scrambling down her back.]

[starofpleiades]

Ah, oh no! [And from there Toto leaps over onto the kitchen counter, almost spilling things again] Geez... I'm really, really sorry about that, Rosa... he's usually pretty nice but sometimes he can be a real brat!

[worldend_dominator]

It is...alright.

[Even though, obviously, her hair is messed up and there are several scratch marks on her hands.]

I haven't held very many cats before. Maybe I did it in the wrong way.

[starofpleiades]

Sometimes he can just be finicky like that... well, if you can just make sure he doesn't knock anything else over, I'll get this cleaned up quickly!

[worldend_dominator]

[Rosa nods. She then tries to coax the cat toward her.]

[starofpleiades]

[Toto looks at Rosa curiously, swishing his tail, but seems content to stay where he is. Kazumi just giggles as she finishes cleaning things up]

So, how have you been doing?

[worldend_dominator]

I've been alright.

[A pause.]

Some of my family came here.

[starofpleiades]

Oh? Eheh, that's good then! Was your daughter one of them?

[worldend_dominator]

No. Sadly, she was not.

[starofpleiades]

I see... I'm sorry to hear that. I, I'm sure she'll turn up eventually! At least if other family members have, you know it's possible and she's could still be fine.

[worldend_dominator]

[She frowns.]

Those other family members were...dead back in my world.

[starofpleiades]

Eh...? They were...?

[Oh no... she didn't know dead people showed up here]

[worldend_dominator]

One of them, one who was still alive in my world, mentioned the possibility of multiple worlds. In one, my relatives died. In another, I died.

[It is unnerving to think about.]