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"Really?" Was all Luke could say at first, before he sighed in relief. "Good. Never made 'em before, didn't wanna mess 'em up. Glad they taste good." He didn't even mind that S'oya liked the French Toast better. Lots of different people liked lots of different foods, and he was new at making...

"No longer than it took us to get here." Winston muttered, trying and failing to keep his tone neutral. Sometimes he was just a sarcastic little shit, especially in response to dumb questions he didn't enjoy the answers to. He wanted to be done with the bullshit just as much as Levi did, but...

"Thank ya!" Luke replied, smiling big at Flora's nice words. "But I dunno how they taste yet. Gotta try 'em first. Lemme clean up, then we try together." It only took him a couple minutes to rinse off all the stuff he'd used, though he did have to leave the frying oil for later. It was still...

"Well enough." Winston replied, pulling out his phone as soon as he'd scanned the horizon. "We did end up going a bit off-track, but that's why maps exist. I'm not about go back the exact same route we came, so just follow me." And with that, he pulled up a map of the area (one that wasn't...

"Yeah yeah!" Luke grinned. This was gonna be fun! He gave a look at the table so the girls'd know to sit down, and then finally brought the flowers over to the table. Okay, he'd just been reading the recipe before he came down, so he just had to remember it again. Let's see... It was barely a...

"Alright, then." Winston sighed, hopefully not loud enough to be noticed. He hadn't expected a better answer than what he'd gotten, so now it was just a matter of getting back into motion. He took one more sip of his tea for strength, then told Levi "Let's go." He hardly even waited for the guy...

"Mhm!" Luke nodded, happy with that compromise. Everyone would eat their share, it would be good. But first he had to make the shares! So he brought the blossoms over to the counter and started looking for the other ingredients. "Wanna watch?" He asked as he pulled some of the stuff out. He...

"If you want to." Winston replied, between sips of his tea. He was trying to savor his few moments of relaxation before life inevitably started moving again, and being forced to think about the escape plan again wasn't helping. "We should be out of danger by this point, unless you've seen...

Luke beamed when Flora decided to have the first taste, hopping on his toes from the excitement. His smile faded a bit when she said she'd only have one bite though. That wasn't enough for lunch, did she think that's all she was allowed to have? "Well, e'eryone's gonna have some for lunch." He...

"Holy shit." Winston breathed before he could stop himself, pulling out his phone to double-check. Yeah, it had been exactly 28 minutes since they'd entered the shop. He was frankly torn between being relieved they'd had such a good hiding spot, harshly judging this place's capacity for...

"But I wanna!" Luke insisted, taking a step toward Flora and holding the squash blossoms close to his heart. "Flora made the flowers, so Flora gets first taste. Tha's fair, I wanna be fair to my friends. E'eryone else gets some too, so i's fair for e'eryone. Don' wanna make Flora embarrassed...

Luke wasn't in the kitchen when the girls reentered the house. However, as soon as Flora spoke, a loud thump echoed from above them. A few smaller thumps followed, and then the heavy sound of footsteps. Those traveled all the way to the stairs, and revealed themselves to be Luke running at top...

"Nobody here." Winston caught onto Levi's attempt at a loophole immediately, but as soon as the words were out of his mouth he knew it was a battle not worth winning. So he let himself sigh a bit as he pulled out his phone, and gave Levi the most believable out he could by muttering "Whatever...

"Don't mention it." Winston replied, practically on instinct. Any time people thanked him, it was either for a situation like this where he wanted his competence to be underplayed, or a situation (also like this) where he wanted his empathy to be nonexistent. He'd learned quickly to want neither...

Luke let S'oya go when she was done with the hug, and nodded again at her nice goodbye. He felt his eyes getting all watery, so when she went away he wiped all the tears up so they wouldn't get anywhere. He'd be okay, that was just a nice thing his new friends'd did. He felt better. His older...