@Sparrow | Video

[arcadedragon]

[The video feed opens on part of the kitchen where there's a big stockpot sitting on the counter on a towel, and a few small bowls filled with soup are standing ready nearby. If anyone has known Genji for more than five minutes it's a shock that the rest of the kitchen isn't stacked to the ceiling with dirty dishes and there isn't food literally everywhere.

He cleans up nice sometimes.

While he's not visible at any point in the video, his slightly mechanical voice is pretty recognizable, so he doesn't think to introduce himself.]

Many of us have been sick, and the weather has become increasingly colder. I made butajiru, except without miso and without dashi because we do not have such things. So I suppose it is simply pork broth and vegetables.

In any case I made a lot, please help yourself, it is in the kitchen.

[Genji is capable of making exactly four items of food: porridge, tamagoyaki, waffles, and this. It's actually good too! Spoiled rich boy has learned himself some new skills.]

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[writtendestiny]

Then maybe we can trade. I can show you my favourite soup, and you can show me yours.

[She'll take any opportunity to show off her mother's mushroom soup recipe.]

But... mm. Places like this, they don't seem to want the people in them to starve, at least. Though in one of them I was usually quite hungry.

[arcadedragon]

You were in another place like this? What was it like?

[writtendestiny]

Like this... no, not exactly.

[She presses her lips together for a moment.]

I've been to two places, and they were only like this one in the way that they took people from their homes. The first place was somewhere we called The Box. That was... I'd prefer not to talk too much about it.

[arcadedragon]

Ah. You do not have to tell me.

I wonder how many thousands of these places exist, and how many people know in our own worlds who have been to such places and say nothing of it. Perhaps it's common and none of us knew until it happened to us.