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[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

[filtered to Batgirl]

[Hikari doesn't like the feeling of seeing someone dead and not even knowing their name. If she had the Vine, she's going to find out. And there's someone who is at least a little bit trust-worthy and might not be hesitant to talk about it.]

Batgirl, it's Hikari. I need to ask you something... About the person who was killed.

[action]

[Later on, one can find Hikari at the Orchard, stocking up on supplies to use as ingredient in her meals. Bother her?]

Comments

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

Hey. Hikari, right?

Make me very happy and tell me you haven't been scarfing the chocolates. They're full of... something.

[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

Mm, that's right.

[Can't really... tell her she hasn't. Awkwardly puts a hand on the back of her neck.]

Um, no, I did eat a few. One of my friend's friends gave a couple of boxes to me.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

Well, crap. Tell me what flavors they were, at least, so I can correlate data on them. Although whatever hit you seems to be mild, or you might have lucked out and got the Perfectly Ordinary Caramels or something.

Also, huh. Maybe gumbo or something with this?

[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

Well, the ones I ate were Strawberry Creme, I think. They are the only ones I touched so far. I... did feel something strange for a day or two.

Maybe, what are you looking at?

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

She holds up an okra pod.

"Cook it wrong, it's a slimy mess," she says. "Cook it RIGHT, and it's great for making soups thicker."

[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

[looks inquisitively at the pod, then recognition lights up on her face.]

Oh, okra! [nods at what she says.] Mm, I've cooked with it a few times before. For dinner back where I lived.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

Where was that? Anywhere I would recognize?

Yeah, we had a couple of people back home that did Creole well. Louisiana cooking.

[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

Well, in Japan, on Earth.

It'd be nice to learn more about that; if the library actually had cookbooks.

...lol, this cookbook actually exists

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

Actually, I managed to find one. The Shar Za'Hav Jewish cookbook.

Think it slipped in because it discussed a gay and lesbian congregation in particular, but...

... it sounds beautiful

[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

Oh! [blushes a little in embarrassment. oh dear.]

Regardless of that, thanks for telling me about it! I'll look it over when I stop by the library again.

My family made a nomtastic chicken recipe from it like every Friday

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan. We have enough potatoes here for potato pancakes, anyway. Even if the Queen can't spell Chanukah.

[No, really. That actually came up.]

That's really nice. *__*

[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

Potato pancakes? That does sound like a plan; I've never had a try at those before.

... She can't?

Re: That's really nice. *__*

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

You have to cough the first syllable. CH.

[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. We didn't really talk about religious holidays in school.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

I can imagine. Discussing one religion at the expense of the others was technically illegal back home, Before. Most schools didn't discuss any rather than talk about all of them.

[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

Fights over religion caused a lot of deaths in my world, especially a little while before I was born.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

I think that's a universal constant, sadly.

[orderlybento.livejournal.com]

I can imagine that being the case.