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Who: Xue Yang and Anyone
Where: Kitchen
When: Fiddlesticks Day 17
What: Attempting at cooking? Yeah that is it...Feel free to stumble upon his attempts.
Warnings: It's Xue Yang..so there could be talk or actual violence

Xue Yang has some business to take care of in the kitchen. He doesn't know how to cook and he doesn't particularly care if what he is cooking actually turns out. He has made sure to pick a time when it would be quiet, before anyone wants to begin working on anything for breakfast. He had some activities last night that now require the destruction of anything that might tie him to that activity.

The item in question is already laid out in the bottom of the oven, the temperature set at 425 degrees because that just seemed like a decent place to set it. And to make sure things don't seem suspicious in the least, a pan full of uncooked bacon has also been set in the oven. He doesn't know if that's how you actually cook bacon but at least the smell of that cooking might mask the scent of something else burning.

He rummages around until he finds something that he can snack on while he waits for a certain item to no long exist. As he is doing that he notices the smoke that is escaping from around the edges of the oven door. That's either a good sign..or a bad sign. And he's not too worried so he's not going to open that oven until he is sure that the item inside is certainly nothing but ash. At least the room is smelling like bacon so part of the plan is working.

He finds some carrot sticks and munches on them as he waits.

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Xue Yang finally comes over and looks at the bacon. He grabs something to hold the hot pan and takes it out of the oven. He stares at the bacon he really has no interest in eating but figures he might as well play along like he cares.

"Would you consider these a lost cause or should the effort be made to save them?"

"They can be salvaged if you put them on a plate with a paper towel." Or she might have to do it herself; doable, but it would require a lot of careful maneuvering.

Frankly, she wasn't about to waste food, whichever way they went. She's had to salvage or go without food in the past, and had been to areas were food security wasn't a given; there was no way she'd let it go to waste if it could be saved.

The paper towels are..relatively easy to grab hold of from where she was sitting, but a look around revealed that the actual plates were in the upper cabinets. She could open those with some effort, but the actual items she needed were just out of reach.

"Not one for asking for help, are you?" Xue Yang walks over and grabs a plate from the cabinet, handing it to her. He has since abandoned the pan of bacon on the table while he went to get the plate.

He grew up on the streets and food had always been something hard to come by but since becoming a cultivator he has made sure he always got whatever he wanted. It's not like he likes to waste food, but in this case it was more a distraction then anything and he figured someone would desire it despite how crispy it might be. His team is in charge of cooking but that doesn't mean it has to be good cooking.

"Not if I could help it." Having people need her help, her assistance, she was all too used to that-too used to people requiring her. Having to actually ask for help meant putting herself out there that she might not be capable of her duties, and in a male-centered career like hers, that could easily be seen as weakness.

This wasn't the military of course, not entirely, but she's been needing help so often since waking up in the medi-car. Any little thing she didn't need help in, she would try to take advantage of.

She accepted the plate however, setting the paper towel on it, then the bacon-she hoped a majority of the passengers liked theirs extra crispy. Even with her good arm, her movements were stilted, but it had to be done.

"Did you plan on making anything else?" She did notice they were on the same color team, but the present time was her concern was NOT burning down the kitchen car.

"That is really the extent of my cooking ability." And judging from the bacon on the plate, it's a very low skill of his. He hadn't really intended to cook anything else despite the fact that it is technically his teams turn to do the chore.

"I suppose if people want vegetables I might be able to boil water." He has watched others do that much at least so he has some minimal knowledge on how to do that much.

"My ex-husband could just cook eggs...and pancakes." And that was it. Though thinking back to the state of his condo when they first met..any woman who managed to stay over night deserved to be treated to breakfast if she chose to stay.

She saw the color of his attire, then recalled something of team duties; perhaps KP was their assignment.

"If this is anything like some military bases," She never thought she'd be grateful for her stint in KP. "We can.." She sighed. "I'll try to help as best I'm able to, but I'm reduced to using one arm for the time being. Right now eggs, bacon, see if they have porridge or something for oatmeal."

She had no idea how many people were living here, cooking in bulk seemed the best idea for the present.

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Xue Yang is not entirely sure what to look for so he simply opens cabinets until he finds one that seems to house food products. He looks around for anything that suggests it is oatmeal. Eventually he encounters a box and holds it up.

"Is this what I should be looking for?"

He brings it over, casually looking at it to see if he can understand what kind of strange food would come in a box.

Knowing what she did from Cassie and how this place seemed to almost travel 'between realm's, Sonya could've theorized that not every human (or humanoid) person was from Earth. She also didn't just want to make that assumption either.

For the present, either this guy wasn't or he was from a much earlier time than even Cassie was. She'd been to multiple parts of China in her career before and most people had an idea on what the brands were, even translated.

"This is it," She took the box and looked at the directions, quickly doing some math in her head for amounts. "You make it similar to rice, but it's cooked for a much shorter time."

Xue Yang grabbed a large pot, going on the assumption that this is what it needed to be cooked in. Rice he does know and understand even if he hasn't done much of his own cooking. He has watched the preparation enough to figure it out.

He didn't really know how to use the stove any more then he understood the oven, but he looks at the buttons and cranks one of them all the way on. Clearly the hotter the better. He's used to cooking over a fire and you can't exactly regulate that.

He puts some water in the pot and places it on top of the burner. He looks over at her, assuming she will tell him if he is doing things incorrectly. He didn't read the instructions and is merely going on instinct but cooking rice..oatmeal..can't be too hard.

The pot's a little large, it's already filled and on the stove so that was that. She did frown when the it was clear he turned the stove all the way on high.

"I'll watch this and turn the heat down when it boils. See if we have any eggs-whole or liquid form."

Eggs, bacon and oatmeal seemed a little over the place, but it was suffice. Inwardly, Sonya wished she had the use of both arms. Biscuits were easy to make and she could whip up a lot of them in a hurry-if she had the use of both arms after this.

"Oatmeal, eggs, bacon.." She thought of something else. "See if we have any bananas or berries we can set aside as well."

Not really the most creative of menus, she'll admit, but considering she had no real idea of what they had (aside from bacon), and this guy was even more clueless-well, they'd have to make due. Perhaps later in the day she'd have a better inventory.

So now he was on the hunt for several things. In his world there was no such things as storage. You bought what you intended to eat for that day. If you had things that could last a couple days then that was nice, but not necessarily safe. The coffin house they lived in didn't exactly have any appliances and since he often traveled after his time there, he had no need to learn to cook on his own.

After a little rummaging around he finally found the box that keeps things cold. He found the eggs and later a few of the fruits. He brought all of that over and set them on the counter.

As he searched, Sonya took the time to try and get a better scope of the kitchens. The ovens and what could only be stove tops were easy to reach at the very least, however, with only one arm, she doubted she'd be able to do much for food prep.

When he finally placed the ingredients on the counter, Sonya felt her broken arm itch even more in the cast. If she were fully healed, she could manage on her own; as it was, he would still have to do much of the work. Atleast, the bananas and berries would be simple enough.

The water started to boil, and she eyeballed about a third of the oatmeal and some salt, before turning the heat on low.

"If you can crack..say 12 eggs into a bowl, then hand me a frying pan, a whisk, and one of the white spatulas, I'll take care of the rest."

It takes him a couple tries but he finally figures out what a spatula and a whisk are and sets them beside her. He sets to work cracking the eggs and once they are done he places that near her as well.

"How did you get hurt?" He wonders if it happened on that strange place they had been manipulated into assisting. He hadn't particularly cared about helping out but at least he got to kill things.

"Injured in the line of duty." Not completely a lie, since she was Pulled before the stones could crush her further, but that was only at the timing of this place.

She kept an eye on the pot, stirring on occasion to keep it from sticking. "Then found myself here."

There was more of course, but even if they were on the same team, she couldn't bring herself to become that open about what happened. Bad enough she had to face it in her sleep.

She'd set a skillet on the stove, along with some butter to melt while he scrambled the eggs. Every attempt to lift something is brought with suppressed pain, but they had a job and like hell was she not going to help out if she could.

"Thanks.." She poured the eggs into the skillet and started to make scrambled eggs.

"We'll need two platters for the eggs and bacon, the oats could remain in the pot, just kept on the stove." She'll get the fruit set up last.

"Saved by the train. Familiar story." He grabs the plates and sets them on the counter. "I should be dead." And the train whisked him away in the knick of time with all his limbs.

So at least he doesn't have to deal with all of that, but there is still the knowledge that if he ever leaves the train, his story is over. Not that it really bothers him that much. Death doesn't scare him and he deserves it for the things he has done.

He just finds it interesting that of all the people to save..the train chose him.

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