|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:36 pm
"Well, We have to get something for Seamus, too," Maia said. Maybe? The selkie made a face. "What's your favorite?"
"He's the best cat sidhe ever. Er. Well. He's the only one I've met, but I know he'd agree with me. Seamus likes me, too. He scared the boys, it was great. I was the only one brave enough to go see what the noise was. They were sitting inside, all stiff! But he was just looking for me."
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:47 pm
"Eel," Toby said, smiling smugly in a way that said he knew how Maia might react. She gave her explanation then and laughed. He noticed that the selkie had taken to calling them 'the boys' like most others."Hold up! Something gurgled in the hall and we wanted to be careful about it! She just stuck her head out and went, 'oh, kitty, come inside.'!"
Lori and Annie both laughed. Dari smiled.
"What else was it going to be?" Lori asked.
Toby threw up his hands slightly. "I don't know! Escaped experiment-gone-wrong? Who even knows in that place!"
Lori just snickered and shook his head. There was no experimentation. Not like that. They tested on saliva samples, not the people that gave them.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:23 pm
Maia made a face. "With so many other edible things in the ocean, why Would you choose eel?" She shook her head. "Of course I invited him in. I invited him to come see me, and I forgot to tell him I was sleeping over at Dari's."
Escaped experiments? Hm. She'd already been told there weren't experiments. Toby was exaggerating! "I think they thought Seamus was a ghost," she said. "He was happy to see me. And before that he took me to their office."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:34 pm
"It tastes good," Toby responded, and then came the mention of sleepovers. Ah. Well.
Lori's brows raised. Sleeping of Dari's? The alien raised a dismissive hand and Lori shrugged. Alright. Sleeping over Dari's. He knew Dari and Toby well enough to know they weren't taking advantage. Annie went quiet for a moment in response.
"Nah, not a ghost. We're not haunted," Toby said. This seemed to break the tension as Annie laughed.
"Yes we are," she assured him.
"Oh come on, that's not a haunting. That's just willful residence," Lori replied, although he was clearly amused as well.
"Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and think you've never met him on a bad day." That was Toby, arching a brow. He turned then and pointed to the sushi bar.
"Look, that's where they make it," he said to Maia. "A good sushi chef has to train for years before he can work as one."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:57 pm
"Do you even know what they eat?" Maia teased. She noticed the tension, looking from Lori and then Annie. "Hey! You guys, Dari told me what people assume guys do on sleep overs and it's not true. We played games and fed Seamus."
The selkie hesitated. "There's ghosts?" she asked. She gave a shiver. She didn't want to meet one! "The HQ is haunted?"
"So he doesn't accidentally poison people with fish," She guessed. "Like eels."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 3:19 pm
"People will eat anything in the name of 'gourmet,'" Toby said. He was fairly certain Maia had been talking about the eels in which case no, he didn't, but he'd pet people ate it too.
"Oh, he harmless," Lori said, shaking his head. It wasn't true. He could harm people if he wanted. He just didn't want to. "He doesn't scare people or anything." He did. He totally did. Just not at random.
"Well, yeah," Toby agreed, "You actually have to cook eel or it is poisonous. Sushi is hard to make, though. The rice had to be just so, it has to be wrapped tightly, all sorts of things. Some people eat fugu. Blowfish. You can only eat a very certain part or it kills you within minutes. Apparently it makes your lips numb anyway."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 3:45 pm
Maia wasn't sure she believed Lori. She'd heard plenty of stories about nonharmless ghosts. Ghosts that killed you. Girls that had a ribbon around their next and would lose their heads if you untied it.
"What kind of idiot would eat a blowfish?" Maia asked, eyes widening. "Those things are deadly! The numb lips should be a clue not to eat it!"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 3:49 pm
Toby lifted his hands and shrugged. To hell if he knew. One slip of the knife and you were a dead man, but people all over the world still partook. He never would.
"Some people really want a rush or... something. It's just another thrill, and expensive. People like to wave their money around."
It was then that their waitress and another server approached with the giant boat-shaped serving display for their sushi. They set it in the center of the table and gave Lori his special rolls, asked if everything was alright and left them to it. Soy sauce was poured into little dishes, chopsticks were readied, and as Toby opened up his' packet he realized that Maia would likely have no idea how to use them.
"Have you ever used chopsticks before?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:19 pm
Maia made a face. "Why don't people get a thrill from something worth while? Like preserving the earth? Saving seals and stuff. When I get a job, I want to spend money helping."
She opened her chopsticks packet and stared for a long moment. Wooden sticks? When Toby asked if she'd used them, She shook her head. "No," she said.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:23 pm
"Oh, some people do," Toby reassured her. Just not the idiots. Of course she would be all for saving the seals!
"Okay, here. You hold one like this," he said, slipping one stick into his hands, "and the other one like this." He clacked his sticks together. "Then you can pick up the sushi with them. It takes some practice, but you'll get the hang of it. Sometimes it's easier the further back your hand is. Then this sauce, you're only supposed to dip a little corner. It's already seasoned. And that green stuff is horrible and hot, and the pink stuff is just pickled ginger."
"It's also culturally apropos to use your hands if you like," Lori offered, already going at the sushi in the boat.
"Here," Toby said, lifting some sushi from the 'boat' with his chopsticks. It was pink fish over rice, raw. "This is tuna." He put it on her little plate so she wouldn't have to struggle with it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 6:44 pm
"Just not stupid ones," Maia said, after a moment of thought. She picked up her chopsticks and tried to mimic Toby. She held them awkwardly, like she'd held the pen when she'd practiced her alphabet. "I was just getting used to using knives," she muttered.
"Thank you," she said, as Toby got her some sushi. She poked at the fish hesitantly with her chopsticks. "And tuna isn't one of those one cut wrong and you're dead fish?"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:53 am
Toby shook his head and chuckled.
"No. Nothing we've ordered is. You can't even accidentally order it, so no worries."
Dari leaned forward, admiring the construction of their elaborate platter and the odd green dots on Lori's rolls.
"What is that?" he asked.
Lori looked down and prodded a roll with his chopsticks. "What?"
"The green."
"...deep fried soy paper."
"Oh. Interesting."
Annie looked up to Maia. "So how do you like it?"
Toby was still watching her expectantly for a reaction.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:45 am
Maia took a bite. She immediately made a face, chewing and then swallowing. Bleh. She'd always preferred the flavor of cooked food. "Its... Different," She managed. "I think I prefer Toby's cooking to this." The chicken alfredo had been wonderful last night, and the fish on the beach.
"You like it though, don't you?" she asked, glancing at Annie.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:53 am
Toby laughed. So she didn't like it. It was cute how polite she was trying to be. Lori's brows shot up again at the mention of Toby's cooking, but he caught the agent's glance. His expression was bland, platonic. Nothing had happened, not that Toby ever got in trouble for much.
"I do," Annie nodded, "It's not like I did much cooking before." Before the FBPI. Before her job, her time on land, her new home.
"Here, these are cooked," Toby said, pointing into the boat at some brown slabs, some red and white slabs, and some obvious shrimp. "Then these are sweet egg, but save one for me, and these are all veggies." He stole some eel sushi and ate it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:14 pm
"I never cooked either. But there was this burger shack on my beach, it's been there twenty years or so--and it's all good food. Then we got pizza and that was even better, and went to a restaurant, and we cooked fish. I want to learn to cook. I tried once, but I burned it so badly the pan was ruined."
Maia took some of the veggies Toby pointed out, and some shrimp. She ate that. "Better," she said.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
