Hope The Fire Isn't Too Hot (Candidate Chore)

[Quill]

(Check your chores, my fellow candidates, just to make sure you don't do the wrong chore and all.)

The sun's light peered over the canyon before eventually fading. The candidate watched it and when the sky turned to pastel colors, he knew. He looked at his relaxed legs as if that would make them move, but they didn't. He groaned and grabbed on a rock above, hoisting himself up. A small hunger pain pricked in his belly. It was dinner and he, along with two others, had to prepare dinner. He frowned at the chore, preferring to clean and maintain the weapons instead of cooking for everyone. Trying to find some positivity in the situation, cooking was better than watering flowers. His feet tumbled over one another as he kept his steps slow. Hopefully another candidate, one who knew how to cook.

Finally, he made his way to the kitchen to find it desolate. Ah, he though sourly as he started fumbling back to the stores, gathering the basics for cooking like eggs and flour and the like. Jervace spread the ingredients before him, staring at each of them. “What the hell am I supposed to make with these?” he thought out loud. He tried to recall the meals his mother and step-mother made. A blank look appeared, and he came out with nothing specific. His hand grabbed at the cooking utensils like wooden spoons and giant bowls before flicking the stove to an acceptable temperature. “Please let the others know what they’re doing,” he thought as he left to retrieve some meat from the stores. Chicken sounded easy enough.

[sakurayasha]

Serenity was late.

She still hadn't gotten used to the complex caverns and had gotten lost several times before finally finding the kitchen. Once she found it she knew what it was; there's something about kitchens that felt like home, no matter how alien that kitchen might be compared to the one on the farm. Serenity put on the apron she had brought with her, tied behind her neck and waist. She hoped she would make a good impression on whoever was supposed to be explaining her new chores.

But the kitchen was empty. A few things had been left on one of the tables, but examining them gave no clue as to what the gatherer expected to be made for dinner. Serenity wandered around the kitchen, exploring. Hoping that someone would come soon, and that the someone would be there to tell her what to do, and not to scold her for late dinner.

[maiwolf]

[/i] was done with, and walked out of the stores. She'd been trying to check and see if any of the stores of herbs needed changing and had failed miserably. Good thing Jervace hadn't seen her, or else she'd have been embarrassed.

Anyway, Olivia exited the stores with a smile as she smoothed down the dress she was wearing atop her pants. She had the strangest fashion and, strangely, it matched. "Good day, Jervace, Serenity! What'll we be making?" But Olivia certainly failed at making things. It was her fault, mainly, but she had sort of thought that a fourteen-year-old needn't think about making food. How wrong she was.

Olivia just wanted to clean the dishes...[/ul][/blockquote][/size]

[sakurayasha]

After a quick discussion with the other candidates Serenity realized that she was the only one here who knew how to cook. How did people get fed before I got here? she wondered in exasperation. Now she had to switch thought processes, she was no longer the new girl who had to learn the new rules from whoever was running things, she was now the one running things.

"Okay, since it's such short notice I think we should go with a stew. We need one of these big Cauldrons moved near the fire and half filled with water, but not put over the fire yet. We need to gather from the stores a sack of potatoes, onions, carrots, whatever squash you can find, and meat. We're also gunna want bread and butter and salt to season the stew, I can look at whatever other spices we have after we've gathered the basics."

Serenity nodded to herself and clapped her hands loudly "Alright lets move! We've got a lot to do and very little time to do it!"