A Food-Lover's Personal Hell [Open]

[everdistant_utopia]

When she made her contract with Alaya -- the part of the world that governed humanity -- the girl known to history as the King of Knights had understood that it would involve certain sacrifices. She had been pleasantly surprised to learn that in eras well into the future of her own, good food would not be among them. In fact, the cooks -- she was hard-pressed to call them that -- of her own time were so terrible that she had wondered if food was merely a form of punishment. It was only after she had been summoned as the Servant Saber in the Fourth War for the Holy Grail that she had been awakened to a new reality: eating could be a pleasurable experience. That is, if the food was pleasant to the taste.

Whatever this 'food' was that was foisted upon her was decidedly not pleasant by any stretch of the imagination.

It did not seem to be an unreasonable thing: the little blonde was not especially picky about food as long as it tasted good. A simple but tasty (and large) meal was far preferable to a fancy but bland (and small) one. The indecipherable mass she was served was the worst of all worlds: unidentifiable, small... but worst of all, tasteless.

She accepted her 'meal' with her usual impassive expression, seating herself in silence. Yet, she made no move to begin eating, staring at the slop with no change in her stony mask. However, those sensitive to supernatural phenomenon -- or even those who were simply observant -- would most certainly feel the heavy weight of a killing aura surrounding the otherwise proper and elegant young girl as she sat in morose silence.

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[everdistant_utopia]

After a half-nod, half-bow of her head, Saber eyed the plate in front of her again. "Incidentally, where can these Sensoriums be found?"

Ordinarily, it would not have been high on her list of priorities, but the prospect of eating sludge indefinitely dictated otherwise.

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

Cagalli took out her handy-dandy Omnicomm. "You got one of these, right? It's on the map, and if you don't know how to get to that," which was probably likely for a lot of people, "I'll show you how it works." She'd already gotten a lot of use out of her own, and would probably be lost a lot without it.

[everdistant_utopia]

Saber peered at the device for a brief moment.

"Ah, so that is what it is..." she commented before extracting her own. This time, she'd had to puzzle things out on her own, and such devices were beyond her understanding.

"I would be most grateful for any assistance you may render."

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

So Saber needed the whole thing explained to her? Well... that was okay too, even if there were people better suited to it. As long as she can work the thing, it shouldn't be too hard.

"They also allow you to send messages in text format, and download other useful information about the ship." Cagalli browsed through the menus to the map, taking her time so Saber could watch. "I don't know all the specifics, though."

[everdistant_utopia]

Fortunately, Saber had enough knowledge from her time spent in Japan, and modern devices were not a complete mystery. It would be a simple matter to learn the basic functions.

"I see..." she answered, studying the device curiously. "I admit I have never seen a device quite like this before. It appears to be quite useful."

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

"Things like this are pretty common where I come from, though the particulars took some getting used to." She went through various other functions for Saber's sake, showing her the network and how to make a post to it, and all the information one could look up. "It's not all that complicated if you have some familiarity with technology, and it's been really useful so far."

[everdistant_utopia]

"There are devices similar to some in the era I was summoned to," Saber admitted. "However, they were much more limited in their capacities. One could not send written messages through them, for example."

She shook her head with a small amount of wonder. "Nothing of this sort existed in my own time, however. Hence, I am at a loss for anything so complex."

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

"Summoned?" That piqued her curiosity a bit, not a word she heard in that context often. Saber made it sound like she was some kind of time traveler, which didn't seem at all far-fetched now. "You were brought from one era to another?"

[everdistant_utopia]

Saber nodded slightly. "I was. That is the nature of my existence, to be summoned for a particular War."

She kept her face carefully neutral, burying her worst fears and focusing on the possibilities. "Perhaps it is no longer something I need concern myself with, but perhaps it is. It is too soon to tell."

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Cagalli frowned thoughtfully. Summoned across time just to fight in a war, and it didn't sound as though it was her choice. "Forced to fight? But you've got a different life here, especially if no one else involved with the war shows up here." And if they did, and they tried to continue this war, they wouldn't last very long.