(Almost) Everything Is Comin' Up Chase [closed post]

[summerdude]

Magnus, triumphant, has finally managed to make some old bamboo sprout. With Drosera fed recently enough that she's not complaining of hunger and resting in her new favorite perch (lounging on his shoulder tucked right against his neck, her beak tangled in hair that is once again getting long), he sneaks it into the Mansion, hides it in a large gift-bag a closet gives him, and hangs it on Claudius and Galahad's doorknob with a quickly-jotted note that reads Claudius, What next? - MAGNUS CHASE.

Then, since he's already inside, he figures, why not wander around until he finds someone to talk to?

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[onthewillowsthere]

"And they're the cause of sickness?"

[summerdude]

"Pretty much one of the major ones." Magnus pauses. "When I was homeless, before I knew I had, like, healing god DNA, I was extra-careful about cleanliness whenever I could manage it because I didn't want to get sick on top of everything else. Not much by way of money for doctors, you know?"

[onthewillowsthere]

Galahad feels a flash of annoyance that the angel didn't just explain this the way Magnus has, clearly and plainly, instead of speaking in vague portents, and he goes to the sink to wash his own hands before demonstrating how to separate an egg for Magnus.

He cracks the egg sharply against the side of the bowl so that it splits around the middle, but instead of tipping it into the bowl entirely he uses one half of the shell to catch the yolk; the white slides in on its own.

[summerdude]

"Okay," Magnus says, nodding intently to himself. The first egg he tries to crack, he uses way too much force, and he stares down at the shell and broken yolk spreading across the counter, stunned, before laughing. "Do you think Dro can eat busted egg?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"Cats like eggs. I don't know whether birds do. Was that your einherji strength?"

[summerdude]

"I think it was mostly just my cooking ineptitude," Magnus says, thoughtfully. But he's pretty sure he can use his einherji reflexes to great effect in the kitchen. "Hey, wanna see something cool? Throw an egg at me."

[onthewillowsthere]

A long pause. This seems like it's going to derail baking. "Later. Outside."

[summerdude]

"I won't make a mess!" Magnus promises, attempting to crack another egg, this time with extremely careful little taps. This time he's successful, and frowns in concentration as he tries to separate the yolk from the white.

[onthewillowsthere]

The mildly dubious air persists. "Use the edge to hold the white back as you tip the yolk out."

[summerdude]

Magnus tries, but the white comes out, too. He automatically drops half the shell and reaches to grab the white, which slips through his fingers. The yolk, however, does not. "That... kind of worked?"

[onthewillowsthere]

"Kind of," nodding. "It's all right if you have to tip it back and forth a few times until the yolk is by itself."

[summerdude]

"Okay," says Magnus, but he takes a break first to clean up the egg all over the counter, and then set the bowl with the yolk he held in his hands down for Drosera to sniff at, to see if it interests her.

This time, when he goes back to try and separate the egg, he's actually mostly successful, and does a fist pump in triumph. "Dude," excitedly.

[onthewillowsthere]

Dro does like egg yolk, although she would like it more if they had given her the eggshell as well.

Galahad grins at him. "Try again. It's all right if there's egg white in with the yolk, but there can't be yolk in with the white."

[summerdude]

"Oh, if that's all," says Magnus. He squints at the eggs for a moment, and tries again. This time goes as smoothly as the last, and he grins.

[onthewillowsthere]

"Good. One more."

[summerdude]

"Aye aye, captain," Magnus says, and does one more. This one is a little messier, mostly because the shell cracks in a weird way. He makes a face as he tries to fish little bits of it out of the bowl of whites.

[onthewillowsthere]

Eggshell fragments are very good at being elusive in a bowl of whites, and Galahad laughs as he watches Magnus. "If you put water on your fingers it's easier."

[summerdude]

"Oh, word?" Magnus goes to rinse his hands and then try again. That really does make things monumentally simpler! "How."

[onthewillowsthere]

"I don't know. I just read it." While Magnus is doing Egg Things, Galahad begins beating the sugar, almond paste, and a stick of butter in the stand mixer.

[summerdude]

The eggs are all Magnus finger-y, now. "Dro, do you want these, too?" he asks her.

[onthewillowsthere]

She clacks her bill excitedly. wet food!!! give food!!

[summerdude]

"Shells or no shells?"

[onthewillowsthere]

shells!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[summerdude]

So Magnus chuckles and crunches the empty eggshells into the bowl with the yolks, and dumps the whites on top. He sets these on the floor for Dro, too, and rinses his hands off again. "Okay dude, I'm done practicing cracking eggs." At least for now, but when he convinces Galahad to throw one at him all bets are off. "How can I help next?"

[onthewillowsthere]

He glances at the bowls with his own single separated egg in them. "Will you add the rest of the butter to the mixer and let it go until it's smooth? I'll do the other eggs."