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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:46 am
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 8:22 am
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Sweeping - like most cleaning, really - was a mindless chore, and it was easy to drift off in thought in the course of it, or simply to think of nothing at all. In this particular instance, she was thinking about family matters, as the night before she'd received a letter from her aunt that she'd be coming to High Reaches to stay. Not her mother, of course - that woman was incapable of settling anywhere, let alone of putting anyone before her or her dragon. Still, it had long since stopped bothering Nisadee, and if someone from her family was going to be around, she'd rather her aunt than her parents. Not that she expected to see her much, or that there'd be a warm reunion; at least if her family had one thing in common, it was a reluctance - if not outright inability, she sometimes wondered - to show anything even resembling traditional affection.
The rumble of her chore-mate's stomach, accompanied by his speculation, interrupted her musings. Not that she minded, as it wasn't as though they were terribly important.
"Something involving tubers is generally a safe bet," she answered, not that he'd actually been asking her.
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:17 pm
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Nisadee wasn't bothered by the growling of the boy's stomach; people got hungry, after all, and she knew it well enough. And given the age range of Candidacy, and the amount of physical work they did, hunger was only to be expected, especially in the interminably long period between lunch and dinner. So, while she might be faintly amused by the noise, it was hardly any kind of an affront. "As long as they're cooked and served up right," she half-agreed, "So it would depend on who they trusted with kitchen duty today."
The kitchen workers themselves were good at their jobs, but some of the Candidates who got tasked to help them...not so much. She'd had more than a few servings of soup that tasted a bit charred. "Stew doesn't sound so bad, as long as no one's burned it this time."
Nisadee wasn't the best of cooks, but she could at least not burn things.
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