In which the former queen...makes soup? [closed to WITCH bus]

[queenofcalamity.livejournal.com]

Arika has already helped herself to the pots and pans in the kitchen. As well as the stove and the refrigerator filled with food. She has taken out meat, vegetables, spices, and other ingredients that she will need. She takes a fairly large pot and fills it with water from the sink, then sets it atop the stove and turns the lighter beneath it on.

While the water boils, she sets to laying out a carrot on a cutting board and starts to chop it into tiny slices with a knife from a drawer she'd rummaged through. The meat would come last, as it would ruin the taste of the concoction before it would even begin.

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[herblessedwind.livejournal.com]

"I do not, and have no need for it. The meister who is here is a kind one. It may have been an accident that I am hers, but it is a happy one."

And Hayate was much, much more to her than simply a kind owner, but for reasons she would rather not bring up now, in a first conversation. The repeating fate was too sad a topic for this time and place.

[queenofcalamity.livejournal.com]

Arika looks to the girl, wondering to herself quietly, before turning back to stirring beginnings of a delicious soup. "If you are happy in your servitude, then I cannot judge whether or not it is right for you to be under ownership of someone." Actually, she can judge, but Reinforce seems happy, so she lets it go.

[herblessedwind.livejournal.com]

Rein smiles softly. "You will understand if you meet her, I think. I hope you will some day."

But... she looks curiously at Arika. "Is that also how you see this time? A rest?"

[witchofcalamity.livejournal.com]

"If she is as you describe, I suppose I would enjoy meeting her."

She pauses in her stirring, lowering her head a bit, thoughtful...before she continues to stir the pot. "No.Not all the time. This is a war we are in, is it not? These moments, small though they may be, should be given to rest and practice."