corrinesbell | 134. Sphere

So after thinking about it for a while, I've decided we're gonna have a contest to name the Tea Shop! ...So, uh, anybody who has an idea can write it down, and when I've got all the ideas...you'll get to vote.

You've only got a week to come up with names to vote on. Get working!

[Sheena is just so tired of trying to be creative about it on her own, and the shop feels wrong without a name after all this time. Involving the village should solve lots of problems, right?

The shop closes early today, when its owner starts to feel strangely tired. She'll carry her journal out around midafternoon, locking the door behind her. At least she's been able to keep ice from forming on the stairs.

Near the bottom of the staircase, a wave of tired and dizzy wins out over balance. There's a lot of creative cursing - more than she'll inclined to - as she slides and rolls the last few steps...and the journal lands open in the mud and snow. So all that grumbling, and the noise of the fall? All nicely broadcasted.

Then she notices, hurrying to pick it up and clarify things.]

Uh, oops, dropped the book down the stairs. Sorry about that!

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Well, in case you are, there's some soup if you want it heated up.

Oh...okay. 'M cold anyway.

Do you want to eat out here, or get set up back in bed? [It's clear which one Raine wants, but maybe it'll help to give Sheena the option.]

[Very clear.]

I'll go back.

All right. [Then she'll move to help guide her back.]

I can walk.

[Ordinarily she wouldn't be so short. But she doesn't even know what time it is - what day it is might be a stretch.]

... All right. My apologies. [Then she'll watch and wait, and go to heat the food up instead.]

[She'll sulk herself back to bed, lying down again and turning her back to the door. If Raine had shown any sign of letting her, she'd have watched her prepare that soup.]

[She's not adding anything extra to what Albert had already put into it. It doesn't take that long to heat up, either, and soon she'll bring the bowl toward Sheena's room on the tray from earlier, with a spoon and more water besides.]

[Sheena doesn't know that, and the illness is making her a little paranoid. She won't sit up until Raine comes into the room; even then, she's not really looking at her.]

It smells good. What's in it?

[It's minestrone, so she'll name off the assorted vegetables in it as she brings the tray over.] I think it all comes together very well. And there's still more, if you like it.

[Right now she really hopes it doesn't make her sick. Such a thing is threatening to happen. Once the tray is sitting on her lap, she picks up the spoon- and stops, with it in the bowl, shifting just her eyes to the side to look at Raine.

Is it really just vegetables?]

[She tilts her head at the look.] Is something wrong?

I'm trying to figure out if there's something else in it.

I've already told you the ingredients.

Yeah but I'm not really talking about ingredients.

[She's all for any kind of medicine that would make this fever disappear, though.

...The look Raine is not giving her should be proof enough, shouldn't it? Sheena takes a tentative first spoonful. And it's not bad.]

It's just soup. That's all there is. [And it should taste good, because it's not like she's the one who made it.]

[In her informed opinion, pretty much all soup could use more rice. This is no exception. But for vegetables it's pretty good, yes.]

It's good. Not...not my favorite, though.

I know, you prefer Miso. [Well, there is some pasta in there. Not much, though.]

Maybe I should teach Albert to make it.

[Eating the soup is such a lackluster task. She finishes most of it.]

He's been interested in the recipe. Though your variation is different from what I would use. [Better, too.] Genis has made it a few times as well.

...What would you use?

I usually just add in meat. You and Genis use other spices.

Oh. Yeah, I guess we do.

[She's been sitting up for a while, and is starting to shiver again.]

... Anyway, just let me know when you've finished.

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