castle_whims | Afterparty the Third

[Yuta's gone. He can't do the after party. So now it's up to Sonic. Yes, Hunter was going to do it, or...at least yell at the sheep to do it, but Sonic pointed out they were going to need more than just apple slices. People were starving and the sheep couldn't cook. In his opinion, of course. How does one even bruise an apple like that!?

Hunter wasn't happy with him, and what's her face Jeanie probably hated his guts now, but honestly, who was happy with anything at this point?

So, the first thing he does is go to the kitchen and start to do the one thing he knows will at least help: cook. The food is back, and so he's going to make a hearty mean and veggie stew in the oven, courtesy of an old recipe that nanny Rosie would make when they were kids. Back before the takeover. After they got food in Knothole.

While the stew is stewing in the oven for a good hour or so, Sonic himself is just...stewing. And also making something with rice in the microwave to tie people over in the meantime. It's actually congee, but he thinks its hot rice pudding, so whatever, it's good to go for people.

And yes. He also has apple slices and graham crackers, Hunter insisted on it. And yes, he's made extra and enough for everyone and Nanami to have seconds if they'd like. They need to eat, albeit slowly so they don't get sick, and he makes notes at the cafeteria table stating that. Then he gets to work with a cookbook to try and make some kind of drink that can help with getting people back on their feet. Dylan does cover with chamomile tea, at least, so it's not as much of an urgent issue.

He's mostly staying in the kitchen if people want to bug him. When he does finally come out, he sits in silence, staring at his bowl of stew, picking at the carrots. He's tired. It's pretty obvious on his face.]

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[Adorabat looks over to Jeanne.]

Oh, I saw it in Dylan's room. I've been in there a couple of times to be with him when he was scared and felt alone.

[She looks back to Valmont's name.]

...Dylan said Valmont wanted it during the trial. He attacked big bro for it. If I knew about that before, I could've talked to them about it. Maybe then, Valmont wouldn't have gone outside his room Thursday night.

[Not much guilt is in Adorabat's voice. More like hopefulness.]

[Spirit Ball Shamash floats down to look at the talisman.]

I attacked Dylan for Shamash here, as it so happens. He does not hold it against me. There are times when it truly seems that Valmont became a monster because others imagined him to be. As if his money was still a threat in this place. Where the vending machine gives out bars of gold.

[Adorabat lands on the ground and pokes the tips of her wings together a couple times.]

I never thought of him as a monster... Just a bit of a jerk... And he really did seem interested in wanting to start training with me.

...The machine is super weird. It gave Hunter my nightstick and Yuta my RIOT helmet. And it gave me Hunter's cat painting. How does it give us these things?