WHO: Adrasteia, Erik, others WHAT: a catch-all with starters in the comments; will match format WHEN: early Bloomingtide WHERE: The Gallows, Kirkwall NOTES: Erik comes with a built-in language warning
"I hold no doubts about that," Adrasteia promises, holding the hug for a little while longer, at least until she feels that Glimmer has received enough support for the moment. She knows what it is to feel overwhelmed in the presence of strangers, and she doesn't want to press the girl if she's not ready for that type of catharsis.
"Have you had anything to eat today?" As she pulls away, but keeps her hands on Glimmer's shoulders. "Come on. Let's see what's available for lunch, shall we? I think I'm too hungry to focus on alchemy for any longer."
"I had a little breakfast, but nothing since then," Glimmer admits. It's a little embarrassing to feel like Adrasteia is fussing over her--but it also feels like something of a relief, after she's been essentially tossed into what feels like the deep end all over again.
"I could bake something and maybe bribe the kitchen staff into making food, if you need it, but otherwise, yeah." Meats, cheeses, and bread are always on deck in her experience. Might as well get some sustenance in them. "Are you more of a coffee person or a tea person?"
"Okay then, coffee as well. There should be some available to us." She smiles and begins putting away the various containers and reagents she'd strewn across the table. No reason to leave a mess for someone else to find. "You'll have to tell me more about New Amsterdam. Did they have fake coffee and tea?"
Glimmer reaches out to pick up a few things. She wants to help and so she follows Adrasteia's lead.
"It was a strange place..." Glimmer starts. She doesn't know how else to describe the glittering metallic city full of towers stretching into the sky and bridges arcing between buildings. Narrow streets and crowded trains.
"They were really concerned about the planet--there had been some kind of disaster in the past that almost wiped it out, and so agricultural products that were seen as a luxury, like coffee and actual tea, were grown only in small quantities. And expensive. If you weren't wealthy, herbal tea was what you drank mostly. Not that I mind herbal and floral teas but gods. Sometimes all I wanted was to not pay a ransom for a cup of coffee."
'Concerned about the planet' is such an odd and specific turn of phrase that Adrasteia isn't certain she knows what it actually means exactly, but she hates being the person who asks too many questions when being told a story. Agricultural products as a luxury, by and large, is also a very different concept from any she's used to; certainly there are luxury products but something as simple as tea?
It boggles the mind.
Still, they manage to clean the room pretty quickly between the two of them, and so Adrasteia nods as if she understands. "There is definitely non-herbal tea to be had, and there should be coffee. What sort of things do you like to eat?"
"Oh, um. This is going to sound so weird, but you have meat here, right? Like... real meat? Meat was also super expensive in New Amsterdam," Glimmer tries to explain haplessly as they head towards the kitchens.
"So... Yeah. Coffee and meat. That's what's been on my mind."
Adrasteia laughs a little, kindly. "Plenty of meat, not to worry. What did they eat, if not meat?" Surely there was some drawback to that, though Adrasteia herself cannot imagine not eating meat of any kind, completely.
"Well... they farmed insects and used them for protein. And fish. And stuff like tofu and seitan. But lots of insects. Cricket flavored noodles," she says with a grin.
"It... wasn't as bad as it sounds? You got used to it, eventually."
Blink. Blink, blink. Whatever answer Adrasteia had presumed she would get, it was definitely not insect farming based on her reaction. "Well." A smile. "Maybe we'll get you some bacon or something a little fatty to start, but not too much, or your stomach might rebel if it's been too long." Automatic mom-mode activate!
"You're welcome." Adrasteia smiles at Glimmer and squeezes the girl's shoulder before they continue across the courtyard to the kitchens.
Coffee takes a moment to find, at this hour, but bacon and cheese and some greens are easily located. Adrasteia tasks herself with cooking for Glimmer, presuming (possibly inaccurately) that the younger woman would have had fewer opportunities to cook for herself; especially over what is the technological equivalent of an open fire, a grate, and a pan.
"How long were you in the other world, if you don't mind my asking?"
"Um..." Glimmer has settled herself nearby, leaning against a table while she watches Adrasteia cook. While she has some experience with cooking, she's really only done it a lot in New Amsterdam, which had the benefit of electric ranges.
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"Have you had anything to eat today?" As she pulls away, but keeps her hands on Glimmer's shoulders. "Come on. Let's see what's available for lunch, shall we? I think I'm too hungry to focus on alchemy for any longer."
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"Are we just going to raid the kitchen or what?"
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"Coffee! Oh, gods! In New Amsterdam real coffee and real tea was so expensive--I want coffee!"
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"It was a strange place..." Glimmer starts. She doesn't know how else to describe the glittering metallic city full of towers stretching into the sky and bridges arcing between buildings. Narrow streets and crowded trains.
"They were really concerned about the planet--there had been some kind of disaster in the past that almost wiped it out, and so agricultural products that were seen as a luxury, like coffee and actual tea, were grown only in small quantities. And expensive. If you weren't wealthy, herbal tea was what you drank mostly. Not that I mind herbal and floral teas but gods. Sometimes all I wanted was to not pay a ransom for a cup of coffee."
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It boggles the mind.
Still, they manage to clean the room pretty quickly between the two of them, and so Adrasteia nods as if she understands. "There is definitely non-herbal tea to be had, and there should be coffee. What sort of things do you like to eat?"
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"So... Yeah. Coffee and meat. That's what's been on my mind."
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"It... wasn't as bad as it sounds? You got used to it, eventually."
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Coffee takes a moment to find, at this hour, but bacon and cheese and some greens are easily located. Adrasteia tasks herself with cooking for Glimmer, presuming (possibly inaccurately) that the younger woman would have had fewer opportunities to cook for herself; especially over what is the technological equivalent of an open fire, a grate, and a pan.
"How long were you in the other world, if you don't mind my asking?"
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"...Six months, I think?"