ஜ 3rd Rise of the Phoenix ஜ

[uccellodifuoco]

[Anyone approaching the kitchen today will find it in a complete state of chaos as Ikki cooks in it. He's not used to work in a kitchen so he has just no sense of keeping things in order or anything, the times he sneaked inside a kitchen to get good when he was little he didn't have time to clean up after all. On a first sight it looks like the work of someone who may be out to destroy the kitchen rather than just use it, at least what he's cooking doesn't seem toxic even if he has created a huge mess to make it.]

Tch, I should have just returned and eaten whatever there was around.

[At least he seems to recognize that he has created a mess. But he doesn't seem willing to clean it at all. He eyes the food he was making, seems he has made too much but he supposes he can leave it here for whoever comes next if they want, he certainly isn't going to throw it away himself food isn't to be wasted.]

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[artofwar]

[While she hasn't had much experience with kitchens (cooking fires were what she knew best) it still looked like a mess. But that wasn't what had drawn her in. Sasha had sensed Ikki and came to see him.]

Ikki! It's been a while.

[She smiles at him, looks at the results of his cooking.] If you don't mind my asking, what is all this?

[uccellodifuoco]

[He looks at her and nods. Of course it hasn't been that long since he saw her in his case but that her and this one are different so it doesn't count.]

I see that you're still among the visitors of this place, Athena. You look well, at least.

[He looks at the kitchen and then at her, stubbornly.]

I made food.

[And that's all that "all this" is.]

[artofwar]

Yes, I'm still here. And how have you been Ikki?

[She resists a soft chuckle at his expression and smiles instead. Not a serene look, more human and genuinely amused.]

I can see that. [Sasha looks about curiously and back at him.] They're just things I've never seen before. Mind if I try some of it?

[uccellodifuoco]

As fine as one can be during a war.

[Which isn't to say much, but he won't go deeper into that.]

You've never seen deviled eggs or pancakes?

[Eh, it could be, food wasn't a topic he used with the people of the previous Holy War after all. He shrugs.]

Feel free to take anything you want, there's too much for just me anyway and it would be bad to let it go to waste.

[artofwar]

[Her expression grows a little solemn then and she nods.]

Yes, but we carry on.

[She doesn't press, war is war. They get by in their own ways. Then Sasha picks up a deviled eggs and nods.]

No, I haven't. There wasn't much we had in the orphanage, sometimes we got extra food from town but that was usually Alone or Tenma's doing due to their work.

[At the offer she nods and very carefully takes a bite of the egg in her hands. Sasha's expression brightens with clear approval.]

[uccellodifuoco]

What about after you were brought to the Sanctuary?

[He never supposed they would have had much in the orphanage from what he had heard from Tenma and the Sasha of his reality, even if they didn't often talk about that. But he assumed that things were different in the Sanctuary.]

[artofwar]

It was different from this. Mostly what could handle Greek soil. But we make sure everyone has enough. From the townspeople to the trainees.

[Especially the town. They did so much for Sanctuary. ...eggs made like this aren't bad though. It's fast, easy, and tastes pretty good.]

[uccellodifuoco]

Deviled eggs aren't hard to make unless you don't have hens.

[That's as close as he will get to offer to teach her if she wants. Though he doubts Athena would want to dirty her hands with cooking... Then again it's Sasha. The one he deals with at his reality seems to love to surprise him, except that she doesn't do it on purpose or consciously.]