hold the milk put back the sugar [OPEN]

[trollofthree]

Characters: EVERYONE
Format: ANYTHING
This log is: open a cereal party you guys
Location: Dining Hall
Summary: BREAKFAST. It happens every day. It's also a great place to run into people whilst half-asleep, half-dressed and half-everything else.

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[monkeystail]

"Uh huh," Huashi mumbled with food in her mouth, almost spitting out a chewed-up piece of orange. Then Xuanzang's snippy voice echoed in her head and she swallowed. She didn't want to know what endless litany of complaint he'd lob at her when she came back and had forgotten the "manners" he'd taught her.

"Yeah! All these people though..." she gave a narrow-eyed stare around the room. "Smell strange. Not all bad though." She had been relieved, when she ended up here, and met Kotarou in the forest around this place. He'd almost smelled of home.

Of course, that could be the dirt they were both encrusted in, but Huashi hardly thought of that.

"It's good food too. Those people are strange to not have better eye on it!" Huashi said and waved a hand with a piece of banana in it at the end of the room where the food could be gathered.

[tenwholeryou]

"Some of the people here are good," he agreed through a mouthful of dry cereal, "Like Dave, and like Ichi." He took a bite of an apple, so both cheeks were full and he looked more hamster than boy, and glanced around to follow her banana-enhanced point. And shrugged. They wanted them all alive, he guessed. What was the use of stealing all these people and then not feeding them? He didn't voice this, because it was bound to upset Huashi, but it seemed pretty obvious.

[monkeystail]

Huashi nodded distractedly as she chewed the banana, picked up a kiwifruit, and, after studying thoughtfully, stuffed the whole thing in her mouth. ... Maybe she should have gotten a bowl of water and scrubbed off some of the floss on the skin of it, first...

"Yeah, well," though that wasn't exactly what came out, due to food-in-mouth syndrome, and she chewed and swallowed before trying again. "That lady... Ichi? She smells off. She nice, though?"

Huashi hadn't gotten out to greet Kotarou's... "Player" when he pointed her out, but if Kotarou said she was okay, Huashi was slightly more inclined to believe it. She stilled smelled off, though.

[tenwholeryou]

"She's nice!" He said it mostly out of misguided loyalty, but then realised that some caution was needed and added, "A bit weird, though."

He demolished the rest of his apple, and went back to his cereal. "What d'you mean by 'she smells off', anyway? You keep saying that."

[monkeystail]

She'd head how Ichi spoke, yes, and out of an urge to reassure Kotarou, Huashi shook her head.

"Don't worry about the way she talks. Some people do it like that!" She wasn't going to tell him that one of the few she'd met that talked like that was a demon who had been trying to eat Xuanzang. But then, they all did.

"Ohh... Well!" Huashi said brightly and help up her own apple. "Everything has a smell, right? Apples smell like apples, but people all smell different. You smell like you!" She paused to nod decisively and then tilted her head.

"Ichi... Smells like she should, but... It's like something's wrong, you know? Like she forgot a rotten fruit somewhere." Huashi couldn't explain it better than that. She didn't smell like the demons did, though, so Huashi didn't think she was evil.

[tenwholeryou]

"Rotten fruit..." Kotarou mumbled it, then blinked. A human who smelled of something gone bad. To him, that didn't mean 'demon', that meant... He dropped his apple core as he half-stood on his chair, "Is she sick?"

[monkeystail]

Staring, Huashi gaped a bit, then snapped her mouth closed.

"Oh, no..." She thought hard, comparing the 'sick smell' to that of Ichi's. It was... close, yes. "I'm sorry Kotarou! I shouldn't have... That's kind of what she smells like, yes." It was closest, at least, so to Huashi, it was one and the same.

"I'm sure she'll be okay, though!" Sick people either got better, or died, and Ichi didn't smell of near-death, just faintly-sick.

"She doesn't smell like she's gonna die soon," Huashi said with a nod, certain of her conclusion.

[tenwholeryou]

Strangely, Kotarou wasn't really reassured by that.

"Okay..." He sat back down, and took a rather downcast third handful of cornflakes. Suddenly, with the idea that Ichi was ill, his suspicions had been replaced by panic and fear for her. Should they find a doctor? But he wouldn't be able to pay anyone, with no tokens and no actual money, and he didn't know where to find one anyway. "Is it something we can get medicine for?"

[monkeystail]

Uncertain what to do, Huashi started to gently scrub a kiwi of its fluff in preparation to eat it.

"I dunno. She doesn't smell sick enough, I think. Maybe you should ask!" Huashi frowned in concentration, not happy that she seemed to have failed in her attempt at reassuring Kotarou.

"I don't think it's a bad sickness though. It'd probably smell worse if it was," she said after a while, reasonably certain this was true. The most important thing was that it cheered Kotarou up though.

[tenwholeryou]

"Right," Kotarou watched her with the kiwi for a bit, expression drawing into a determined scowl from his previous fear. This place was really rich, and maybe they'd treat anyone who got sick, like any decent master or owner. Ichi was strong, and willing to fight. They'd want her alive.

And Huashi was looking upset, which meant he in turn felt a little guilty.

"I'll ask her today!" He took a gulp of juice with the same resolve, "And tell her to get medicine. She'll listen to me."

[monkeystail]

Huashi nodded, relieved Kotarou had turned to determination instead of looking downcast. Then she paused with the kiwi halfway to her mouth, mouth also open in preparation for the delicious, delicious fruit. She just had a revelation. So to speak.

"What if she doesn't know. You're gonna have to find someone here who can tell her what sort of sick she is, then!" It didn't enter Huashi's mind at all that telling someone who didn't know they were sick that they might be wasn't something you did just like that.

"We'll slove it!" Huashi said with a determined nod and finally finished her fruit-to-mouth arc and put the kiwi where it was supposed to go.