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[failureisntachoice]

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[use_everything]

... Depends on how much of the groceries we've used, belike.

[Yes.]

[failureisntachoice]

...I bought them weeks ago so yeah, I think you've used them all.

[use_everything]

Likely so.

[failureisntachoice]

Who normally handles the food in the house?

[use_everything]

Gregor, generally. Otherwise, it's been takeout.


I'd been thinking about hiring staff, actually.

[failureisntachoice]

Yeah, staff might be your best decision yet if none of you are used to doing this.

[use_everything]

Gregor isn't bad, honestly. Though I imagine the appeal is wearing, by now.

[failureisntachoice]

I'd be getting annoyed of it by now and I'm used to doing that kind of crap.

[use_everything]

Ah?

[failureisntachoice]

You're lucky he did that as long as he has. I would have gotten fed up of buying groceries and cooking for that many people after a week without any extra pay.

[use_everything]

It's not frequent he does, it's merely better than Miles' attempts.

[failureisntachoice]

What about yours?

[use_everything]

I can't say I've tried much. I'm considering asking the proprietor of the cafe for some of the basics.

[failureisntachoice]

Cass? She'd be a good teacher. But if you're planning to hire someone to do it for you, you might not need to bother.

[use_everything]

[He lifts a hand, conceding the point.]

Fair enough at that.

[failureisntachoice]

[ She nods as she pokes at her food. Small talk isn't exactly what she excels in, but it's better than letting silence and her thoughts reign over the moment. ]

Do you like working at her cafe?

[use_everything]

That's... complicated, perhaps. I've supported, more vocally than I should have at times, breaking down some of the class barriers and prejudices in my world.

[failureisntachoice]

That changing now that you're working a less-than-lordly job?

[use_everything]

No. [That's firm. Immediate.] I just find humility harder than I expected.

[failureisntachoice]

Yet you haven't left it yet. Neither has Gregor. Why?

[use_everything]

I will leave the second half for Gregor to answer himself. [Because it wont be from him that the Emperor is smitten with the trappings of a common life.]

For me... I suppose it is that it is a craft, all the same. A duty to perform, all the same. These things, both pride and offense of it, they come from different places.

[failureisntachoice]

You get all that from making and serving coffee?

[use_everything]

[At that, his expression closes down to some degree.]

It is something to do. There are more suitable things, but I am disinclined to engage in a martial career in a world I care little for and a war I care even less about.

[failureisntachoice]

[ She nods in full agreement. ]

Yeah, I don't blame you. I don't have a whole lot of fondness for being drafted to a whole new universe and expected to play toy soldier.

[use_everything]

I can't imagine any who would. Those with the kind of sense of duty are oft already sworn elsewhere.