Day 266 | Open

[aprettyred]

Who: the red Anna, EVERYONE
Open: Open
When: 266, morning!
Where: Kitchen, donut trees
What: Anna is no longer 11
Format: Log, will follow
Warnings: ... Adorableness?




One of the benefits of being a Strain with the powers Anna has is that she knows things. Most of the time she knew where people were around her, what they were thinking. Sometimes it was about the world.

Like that she had been here long enough, combined with her time in Vatheon, that it should be December 8th again.

Well, for her at least. And it was a little after that, really, but the point was that Anna woke knowing that she wasn't 11 anymore. There was the core hunt, though, and talk of problems and Ura, and so it didn't really come to mind that maybe she could do anything until she spotted the donut trees again.

... Tatara had done something like this once, hadn't he?


Anyone near the donut trees and bushes will find Anna trying to collect a few into a basket. She is, however, a small child, and this isn't going to work very well. Mikoto the larvesta is sort of helping - his wagon is now occupied by a basket, so he's halfway up a tree and... eating leaves.


Or you can miss Anna collecting donuts, and find her having collected them, and sorting them onto plates in the kitchen. Donut breakfast. For as many people as she can. Mikoto is happily chewing through one that looks like Anna grabbed it a little too hard, buzzing lazily.

Comments

[cyan_maid]

"I can certainly try."

The branches with the round donuts aren't terribly high up there, but Jane stands on her tiptoes regardless. She doesn't want to yank it down, that might damage the tree...or the donut, which actually does feel like a donut. Well isn't that interesting!

Jane hands the round donut over. "Here's one to start. How many is 'a lot', exactly?"

[aprettyred]

"... How many people are here now?"

Anna takes the donut and adds it to her basket of donuts. "... Other than Paar. I don't think one donut would be more than a taste for him..."

[cyan_maid]

"Here as in the entire Bastion? Or here as in a portion of it?" Jane's not even going to ask who Paar is, she can't handle too many weird things in one day. She reaches up for another donut as she continues. "I wouldn't know how many people are here overall. I only arrived a couple of days ago."

[aprettyred]

"I was thinking entire bastion. But maybe it would be the portion that knows that the kitchen has food? Or would it be the portion that knows how to cook..." And into her basket! Mikoto the larvesta has moved to absently watch this donut harvesting about his mouthfull of leaves.

[cyan_maid]

Huh. Was this a normal thing to do here, gather donuts for everyone? If so, why would the job fall to someone who had a hard time reaching them? "Any particular reason why?" Jane asks, picking another round donut.

[aprettyred]

"Because Tatara used to do it on birthdays." And into her basket!

[cyan_maid]

"Oh? With donuts?" She picks some more, as if they're fruit. This really is the strangest thing. How could a tree learn to grow sweets? It's crazy, and yet that's what's in her hands. "I usually celebrate a birthday with cake, but I suppose collecting the ingredients for one might be difficult, especially if we're planning on sending out food to others. Whose birthday is it?"

[aprettyred]

"I also do not know how to make cake." And there's donuts here for picking.

"I am twelve."

[cyan_maid]

"Well I'm sure someone here knows how to - "

Jane stops short, her hand outstretched for another donut. The sentence clicks into place with her question. "Are you? Gosh, Happy Birthday!"

[aprettyred]

"... Probably Rin." But Anna wanted to do this by herself, so asking is cheating!

"Thank you."

[cyan_maid]

"Y-You're very welcome, but...I'm not sure I understand." She gets the donut she was reaching for, hands it off. "If you have the option of having a birthday cake, why not take it?"

[aprettyred]

"... Because I wanted to make it." ... And that's really it. No other reason.

[cyan_maid]

"Oh."

That's all Jane can manage to say for now. She thinks the girl's answer over, plucking a few more donuts from the tree, and tries not to dwell on memories of her own recent birthday, and how making her own special treat had worked out for her. It hadn't. But, well...maybe harvesting donuts was different?

She certainly hoped it was different.

"You know," Jane says at last, "This is an incredibly kind thing for you to do, to go out of your way like this on your birthday. Would you like to learn how to make a cake later? I'm quite good at it myself, and if you're interested, I wouldn't mind teaching you..."

[aprettyred]

Jane, don't ask what happened on Anna's last birthday. It might not be up to the same shenanigans that happened on yours, but its probably enough to make her more interested in doing things herself, rather than pretending not to hear the plans.

Does her expression give an answer? "Really?"

[cyan_maid]

It does, it really does.

"Of course! Granted, we'll have to see if the right ingredients are available, but I'm certain there's a good cake to be made with most anything!"

[aprettyred]

Hmmm... What did Anna remember on cake ingredients? "... Frosting might be hard?"

[cyan_maid]

"You don't always need frosting for cake, but I bet we could whip up something close." Jane doubts there's powdered sugar in the post-apocalypse, but if anything she is confident in her abilities to make due when it comes to cakes.

[aprettyred]

"You know cakes. If we need anything turned into anything else, we could probably ask Colin." Because Colin can make anything.

[cyan_maid]

"Really?" Huh, he didn't seem like the type to be into cakes...but from Jane's brief talk with him, he did seem like an industrial fellow. "I'll do well to remember that, then. Would you like to start today, or should we focus on these donuts?"

[aprettyred]

"Donuts first." Because that's what she has already started.

"... Cake desert after?"

[cyan_maid]

Yeah, it made sense that donuts would come first.

"Cake most certainly after."