3rd Recipe - Stone Soup [Video; forward-dated to the 23rd]

[starofpleiades]

Um, has anyone else been having trouble getting food from the cafeteria? They aren't letting me in the kitchen to cook anything, or even giving me anything to eat...

[Kazumi looks more than a little worried. She's glad to be back in her own body but... this is a really pressing concern! How can people eat if they don't have food?]

...do you think they're mad at me for always cooking so much? Maybe I should have only made two pies yesterday...

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[scorchedchivalry]

Then I shall come and make them listen.

[Oh, she sounds angry.]

[starofpleiades]

D, don't hurt anyone! I didn't really want to use force...

[scorchedchivalry]

If they know what is best for them, they will not impede me.

[And she shuts the terminal off. She'll be there in a few minutes.]

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[starofpleiades]

[Kazumi is waiting nervously in the cafeteria, wondering if Saber really is going to get violent with the robot-like people who ran the cafeteria. It wasn't like they were being mean... just really, really adamant about not handing any food over.]

Action

[scorchedchivalry]

[The wave of rage comes rolling into the cafeteria just before Saber enters it. Black skirts whipping about her ankles and hard yellow eyes, she looks at Kazumi for a moment before striding past her toward the cafeteria workers.

A few feet past Kazumi, Saber's blackened armor with the red veins through it flashes into existence, covering her body in steel. Her hands remain empty as she wades into the workers, demanding answers and personally checking the stores herself.]

[starofpleiades]

[Kazumi tenses a bit to have that gaze directed at her momentarily before it passes, and she meekly follows at a safe distance.]

Saber-

[She's a little concerned when that armor appears - magical knight girl? - but doesn't interrupt when she sees she's mostly using it to just... walk through the works rather than actually attack them, and Kazumi takes the opportunity to follow her in]

[scorchedchivalry]

[Kazumi may not be as relieved when she sees Saber lash out to leave a nice dent in the stainless steel counter top after being repeatedly denied an explanation as to what happened to the food stores. It took all of the knight's control to not cut the man in half.]

Useless.

[She mutters that as she whirls around, the prana swirling about her like reddish-shadowy tendrils ruffling the clothing of everything around her as if it were a wind in itself. Still angry, she stalks past Kazumi toward the exit, barking a command as she passes the girl.]

Come, Kazumi.

[starofpleiades]

[That certainly makes Kazumi jump and she scurries up to... try to restrain her? The idea seems kind of laughable so she just kind of stands nearby, trying not to freak out about the shadowy stuff around Alter.]

Yes!

[And she follows after... Kazumi is not used to dealing with angry adults]

[scorchedchivalry]

[At least Saber's anger is well-directed and she's not taking it out on anything alive. The counter top will survive. She's heading out of the cafeteria, toward the stairs (she has too much anger for the elevator) and talks as she goes, assuming her vassal is right on her heels.]

As the Tower will not longer provide for us, I shall. Do you know how to field dress game?

[starofpleiades]

[Her vassal is indeed on her heels, worried Saber might do something rash. She taking this pretty harshly, it seems.]

Eh? I... no?

[She's actually not wholly familiar with the term but she can guess what it means. And while she understands that things die to provide food and is respectfully at peace with the concept, it's not something she's directly dealt with before.]

[scorchedchivalry]

Then you will learn. Fetch a sharp knife from the kitchen and meet me at the fourth floor lounge. I must acquire someone before we hunt.

[starofpleiades]

Ah, okay!

[This is moving a little fast for her but she'll go grab a knife and meet Saber up there. She wonders what's going to happen... it couldn't be the knight has an animal to "dress" already, right?]