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[carmesi]

I don't know. You might be curious to taste it.

How's the job hunt going?

[unquiets]

Is it cake batter?

I've got options.

[carmesi]

We got a waffle maker last night.

( buddy. )

Do you want to talk about the options? Anyway, I thought you weren't too pressed about getting a job.

[unquiets]

Yeah, and you think I'm just going to start eating uncooked waffle batter?

I'm not going to just freeload.

( he is still not pressed though. it's just... you know. what else is he going to say he's doing with his time? )

1/2

[carmesi]

I meant don't touch it as in don't make waffles without me.
You eat cake batter?

2/2

[carmesi]

It's been less than a day. You're not freeloading.

[unquiets]

Yeah, and I'm also not taking the first job that comes my way.
So— Options.

Everyone eats cake batter.

[carmesi]

Okay. Options.
And no, wrong.

[unquiets]

Is this a lack of opportunity or a lack of willingness thing?

[carmesi]

Pie and tarts are more common than cake for us. It was plum pies for birthdays.
So, maybe a little bit of both.

[unquiets]

Fine.
Americans all eat cake batter.

( plum pie doesn't sound that bad, though. )

[carmesi]

If you think about it, you only know one Sokovian, and my country doesn't exist anymore. So maybe everyone does eat cake batter. Just not — me.

Is it actually any good?

[unquiets]

Yeah, but you'd have said if the other Sokovians you grew up with ate cake batter.

It tastes like vanilla and butter, mostly.
Or chocolate and butter.

[carmesi]

Some might have.

I imagine it would have raw eggs. Butter's not a flavor.

[unquiets]

And uncooked flour.

You get butter flavored food, so...

[carmesi]

Butter cookies are actually baked.

( the thin line between things that wanda likes and dislikes, and thus considers the latter inexistent. )

Anyway, it's not important. We'll do the waffles together later.

[unquiets]

( what do butter cookies have to do with anything else, david is lost.

(except about the waffles.)
(still, "we will.") )

Okay.
Were you a baker in a past life?

[carmesi]

One of the roommates I had before was a cook.
I helped out in the kitchen sometimes. He also wrote down some of the recipes.

It's basically a pancake batter.

[unquiets]

That makes sense.

And up until yesterday, here I was thinking they just came frozen.

[carmesi]

Well. You can try them homemade and let me know what you think.

How long did you take medication for? You said the sugar helped.
I'm guessing it made the eating experience different.

[unquiets]

( there's a momentary pause at the question, enough that david doesn't even bother to point out that the sarcasm (light! but there) of his previous remark had been missed. reluctance, something a little uncomfortable and harder to name. )

I was a teenager.

( you can do the maths. )

There were a few different prescriptions.

[carmesi]

( that is a lot of years. you also cannot do sarcasm with wanda; she misses the point a lot. )

And how long since you've been without? Recently?

[unquiets]

A bit over a year.
Maybe closer to two.

( depending on how you look at it. )

[carmesi]

Okay. That's good.
Anyway, I was just curious. We don't need to talk about it more unless you want to.

[unquiets]

I don't.

( short, to the point. he could go into why, but he also — doesn't really want to. so. )