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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:29 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 7:37 pm
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Today Yunara had been assigned to cook a hearty herdbeast stew. Humming to herself, the lower caverns worker removed the lid from the stew, and checked the consistency. It was coming along nicely, the scent of fine herbs wafting up from the steaming pot. So absorbed was she by her present activity that she hadn't noticed a familiar face among the helpers today.
Perched in her usual spot, Avarice had wrapped her tail loosely around Yunara's neck. She, however, was not oblivious to Beelim's presence. With a soft hiss, the queen raised her wings when he seemed a little too near. Not so close as to be a real threat to her beautiful stew, but... sssss. The flitter did not approve, thank you very much.
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 5:30 pm
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"Ssssssss!" said Avarice, aggressively hanging from Yunara's back so that she could threaten Beelim. Not that a smallish queen firelizard was a threat to a large Candidate, but... Avarice was definitely trying to be fearsome. "Hsssst." How dare!
Clearly the firelizard had not forgotten who had taken several buns last time (each belonging to her, of course,) never mind that she'd been given a portion from them. He was not forgotten, nor was he forgiven. So agitated was the flit that Yunara glanced up, startled, and only just caught what the man had said.
"Oh! Yes, this is part of what I'm tending. We don't get just one task in the kitchen, you know." The day she'd met Beelim she'd baked a number of batches of buns, along with the cake, but she'd also helped with savory dishes as well. No one ever got assigned a single task... though maybe Candidates did, come to think of it.
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 9:56 am
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Whatever emotion Beelim was currently wrestling with, Yunara would have been surprised to be its cause. After all, she hadn't meant anything by what she'd said. "Ah. Yes, I've been working on this stew for awhile today," she told him. There'd been the chopping, of course. All the preparation and so on. Stews took a longer time to cook than soup, which was fine by her. Not that she could ever just do one thing.
"Ssssssssss," Avarice informed Beelim, who was a little too close to her person (although not close at all, really.) Also, the way he was eying the stew was suspect.
Yunara reached back and retrieved said firelizard, tucking her beneath her collar. That could sometimes calm her down, if nothing else would work. "True, I don't think many people find peeling tubers to be a riveting pastime." Then again, there were definitely worse activities, to be sure.
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Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 6:09 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 6:27 am
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If Beelim noticed Yunara's emotional response, he didn't bring attention to it but did take a quiet note of it. But before he could say much in response to her comment about the recipe, she was off to check on something in the oven. Which left him staring down a little gold firelizard that had made her opinion of him known time and time again.
"My mothers would have loved having you on watch," Beelim commented, mostly to himself as he imagined the two women at their, unfortunately, futile efforts to keep their (almost) youngest from sneaking samples and snacks. However, as they had not deterred him neither did Avarice - and he wasn't even trying to get a sneak-taste of the stew. He, instead, took up the spoon to give it a careful stir.
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 12:31 pm
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This was completely unacceptable. Avarice gave a threatening hiss, diving to n** at Beelim's boots. He had crossed beyond rudeness and into the territory of unforgivable. Raising her wings up high, she let Beelim know that his behavior was not okay! "Sssssssss!!!"
Glancing back quickly when she heard Avarice's hiss, Yunara made a clucking noise with her tongue. "No, no, Avarice. No, we don't need to bite any boots. He's just stirring the stew, you silly." Abandoning the oven, Yunara reached down to scoop her firelizard up. "I'm sorry. I've tried to train her, but she's very territorial." That, and the queen seemed to be prone to holding grudges. Oh dear.
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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:54 pm
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