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[jemerite]

[ Today Miss Zinc is sitting at her kitchen table, surrounded by an assortment of empty jars. There's a rather bemused expression on her face as she asks someone out of sight, ]

Are you sure?

[ A voice that one may recognize replies cheerfully, ]

Aye lass, you just stuff the blasted things in there with a little sprinkle'a salt.

[ Zinc looks unconvinced and turns to the mirror instead. ]

I wanted... to store food, for everyone? But the library is... [ What's the word? ] Useless.

I think... we need help.


[[ooc; Totally late, but Reeve left Cait with Zinc, so here is this \o/]]

Comments

[hotshot_momma]

"Trying to make preserves? Let me see if I remember how. Those jars are sterilized, right?"

[jemerite]

...how sterilized?

[Her tone isn't suggesting any guilt or resistance to the question, she is just curious to know whether the woman means cleaned or boiled.]

[hotshot_momma]

Dipped in boiled water. Bugs love salt and sugar.

[jemerite]

I can do that.

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[mnementomori]

[some curious peering here...and oh, it's Cait! She waves.]

Store food? In case we run out?

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[jemerite]

[Cait gives a friendly salute in reply.]

Yes, I wish... to dig a cellar. And store them.

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[mnementomori]

I didn't know you could do that. Um, I'll help! I can do the digging part, I think.

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[jemerite]

Yes, the hole comes first.

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[mnementomori]

Okay, so we'll need shovels. I wonder if some of the robots could help?

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[jemerite]

Manual labor is not this Cait Sith's style.

[Just in case you were wondering how she felt about the enterprise.]

I think there are shovels... at the orchard? From the gardening.

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[mnementomori]

Oh! I'm sorry, Cait. I meant the ones from Antikythera. Some of them look like they'd be good at digging...

[she nods.] Got it. So we can borrow them. Is there anything else? You think we'll need magic dirt?

[cleaningstop]

Help with... what?

[jemerite]

Preserving foods, so they can be kept a long time.

[cleaningstop]

Are you preparing for something...?

[jemerite]

Just in case. The... faeries ate most of the orchard. It would have been good, to have extra.

[cleaningstop]

You weren't going to store any of those weird apples, were you...

[jemerite]

Not raw. Maybe... smoked? I would... have to ask Gavril.

[cleaningstop]

Not raw sounds good. Yes, I definitely agree!

[notvitiligo]

Fridge?

[jemerite]

Full of meat.

[She nods definitively.]

And... more caches is better, I think.

[notvitiligo]

More fridges?

[Jessica: does not believe in other methods of food preservation.]

[jemerite]

[She laughs faintly.]

Backup plans.

[notvitiligo]

For what, sleepovers or something?

[jemerite]

Emergencies.

[notvitiligo]

I wonder if just stockpiling magic dirt would be more efficient... It does go bad, but not as fast as most food does.