New Plan, Step One: Provide For My Community [open]

[summerdude]

Magnus needs something to change, so when a Mansion calendar helpfully informs him that it's International Falafel Day back on Earth, he goes to the library for some cookbooks, and then to the kitchen.

He lays out ten different falafel recipes. He gathers the ingredients they list, as best as he can understand them. He has canned chickpeas and fresh chickpeas and dried chickpeas and chickpea flour and box mixes of falafel that say 'just add water!'

Cripes.

"I can do this," he says, peering at the assorted recipes intently for a good ten minutes, and then takes the dried chickpeas over to the sink to rinse and soak.

Comments

[summerdude]

"They said it grew from every single nail clipping that people lost or threw away," Magnus says. "That's why I was curious about Charlie's."

[sporesprouter]

Tress makes a face. "That is so gross."

[summerdude]

"You're telling me. Try fighting for your life on a boat made out of nail clippings."

[sporesprouter]

"Well, in case that ever happens, do you have any advice for that specific scenario?"

[summerdude]

"Your crew is your strength," Magnus says, immediately. "Friends, community... they're what's important."

Wait.

[sporesprouter]

She smiles a little. "That advice works a lot."

[summerdude]

"Yeah, it's a pretty good catch-all. You remember my talent show thing?"

[sporesprouter]

And that makes her smile grow into a grin. She nods. "All of your compliments. Yes, I remember."

[summerdude]

"That's how I defeated Loki on the ship," Magnus says, and makes a face. "I mean, we still had to fight our way off of it. But that did help. It also helps that my friends back home are actually, like, good at fighting."

[sporesprouter]

"I'm glad you and your friends won. I'm sorry you had to fight, but I'm still glad you had each other."

[summerdude]

"Yeah, me too," Magnus sighs. "Did you ever get into, like, battles? Ship battles?"

[sporesprouter]

She nods. "A few of them. I wasn't really doing any of the fighting in any of them, though."

[summerdude]

Magnus laughs. "Honestly? Me neither."

[sporesprouter]

That makes Tress laugh too. "Not fighting is probably one of the better things to be doing during a sea battle."

[summerdude]

"I'm really good at running away, though."

[sporesprouter]

"I'm... not as good at that part."

[summerdude]

"You're not?"

[sporesprouter]

"From shortly before I left the Rock, I've kind of found myself running towards dangerous situations more often than away from them."

[summerdude]

"That's brave of you." It's not a snide comment; Magnus is genuinely impressed.

[sporesprouter]

She shrugs. "What I needed to do was normally in the direction of dangerous situations." Also she increasingly grew to find the danger kind of exciting, but that's entirely beside the point.

[summerdude]

"Like I said! Brave."

[sporesprouter]

"Mostly practical, but thank you."

[summerdude]

"Practical, schmactical. Brave," Magnus says, grinning.

[sporesprouter]

"Okay, okay, fine. Brave."

[summerdude]

"You got it," Magnus says, grin widening for just a moment. Then he glances at their ingredients. "Okay, what next?"