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

[eternallily]

[Saki nods at Kazumi's question. Good, at least that's settled! It doesn't solve the problem of what she'd learned from Dax that morning about the whole thing, but one thing at a time.

She points at Kazumi again, giving her a questioning look at the same time as she points to the blue line.]

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Eh? Um...! I can't really understand any of the things you say though, even if you can understand me. I'm pretty sure I'm still speaking Japanese though...

[She feels kind of bad, being able to be understood but not being able to understand her friend...]

[eternallily]

[...oh, Kazumi. Saki knows this. She just wants to know if you're okay! If anyone's hurt you, anything like that. It's a little frustrating, but Saki tries not to let that show.

Instead, she scribbles a little more, till she gets this.]

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Eh? Ah... yes, I've been okay! I mean... nothing's happened since... last month...

[She goes a little quiet at that, petting Toto idly.]

I'm... I'm sorry I didn't listen to you then. I should have.

[eternallily]

[Saki nods, then reaches out so that she can pet Toto a bit, too. But those words make her stop petting the cat, reaching up and putting a finger to Kazumi's lips. She shakes her head.

She can't say it in a way Kazumi can understand, but she hopes the gesture gets her point across.]

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[Kazumi stops speaking at that finger on her lips, but she does frown and tear up a little. After a moment though, she nods. If she weren't holding Toto right now, Saki would be getting a big hug, and Kazumi takes a half-step forwards, almost doing so anyway]

...I'm glad you're alright now.

[eternallily]

[Saki nods, her own eyes tearing up. If she could just speak in a way that could be understood, she would explain everything. Explain how sorry she was, how she hadn't meant to do that, how much she'd hated herself for it. But she couldn't, and so all she could do was cry, and be angry at herself for her lack of words. She couldn't help shaking a bit, in no small part due to that anger.]

[starofpleiades]

Saki...! [Okay, sorry Toto, back on the ground you go because Kazumi is dropping the kitty to give her best friend here a big hug, squeezing her tightly]