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011 Resolutions

[A: Action; Locked to Housemates]

[Cain is in the front room, carefully taking down the Christmas decorations. He's got a wide smile on his face, even if there's a slightly wistful look in his eyes as he winds up tinsel and packs away baubles.]

[B: Around Town (Open)]

[On the way to the store this morning, Cain was enjoying the crisp weather now that the town was no longer in the grips of a deep freeze. He's kicking a stone idly as he walks, making a game out of trying to land it on a certain spot each time, when he accidentally kicks it a bit too hard.

--SMASH--!!

It's gone right through the window of a nearby building. Maybe that was your house? The shop you work in? Or maybe you just happened to see the incident and want to laugh at the horrified expression on Cain's face?]

[C: Phone (Open)]

New Year is a time for resolutions in a lot of places and, though I've never made them before, I thought I would this time. So... here we go. I resolve to greet everyone I meet here and make new friends, as well as grow closer to the friends I already have. I resolve to help everyone make it through anything this town throws at us, as well as do my part in finding a way home. I resolve to dye my brother's hair pink at least once this year, and I resolve... to have resolve, to keep looking forward and not let anything break me down.

Do any of you have resolutions? Big or small?

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I do not believe there is anything you need to do. I am perfectly capable of repairing the break by myself.

[Though she would have to wait until he leaves because she does not want to reveal her status as a magus to him.]

I meant in preparing the tea.

[Though he would have been more than happy to help with the window too, considering it was his fault.]

I suppose you could help watch the water. Be careful not to burn yourself.

Don't worry, I cook all the meals at home, I know how to use the cooker.

[She looks a little disturbed at that.]

You mean you do so here, right? You must have had parents to cook for you at home.

[He has no parents, he has never had parents, so this is a bit of an awkward question.]

None of the rest of the household here are very equipped to do the cooking.

So they let a child like you handle it?

[She feels righteous anger rising up inside her.]

What about here? Are your assigned parents doing well in caring for you?

...No, I mean here... there's nobody here to do the cooking, we'd probably all be killed off by food poisoning if they did.

[He hadn't been talking about home, he had been skilfully avoiding that topic.]

I...I see...

[Was this another one of Mayfield's games? Put a child into that sort of environment and have them handle themselves or starve?]

My house is currently full of drones. If you ever need to, you and your other housemates can come take meals at my house.

[She would lock the drones in the basement or something.]

A child like you should not be responsible for the housework of an entire "family."

It's really alright, it's not like I'm being forced or anything, my family are all very nice.

[Or most of them are.]

Miss Astha and Miss Rachel just think cooking and cleaning are beneath them, and Abel would kill everyone he tried to cook for.

If you say so...

[She sighs and goes back to sorting through the tea bags.]

Which flavor would you prefer?

Just ordinary, please.

[He's not much of a tea drinker, he's not up on all the fancy flavours.]

[She pulls out one of the extremely bland teabags that she bought at the store and a set of teaware.]

I must admit--you are the first person that I am going to serve from this tea set.

[Her drone family had preferred soda, and in the case of her drone husband, coffee. She was the only one in the house that liked the occassional sip of tea, so she saw no reason to break out the full tea set, opting to use her usual cup instead. It was just a bit of a shame, seeing how the tea set was a pretty one, decorated with little pink roses.]

[He has no idea how to really respond to that, he's never met anyone in his life that owned a tea set or was interested in that kind of thing, so he just smiles politely.]

It's very nice, I'm honoured to be the first to sample from it.

[The tea set had been tucked away somewhere in a cabinet, gathering dust. She supposed that it was another way for Mayfield to affect the appearance of a normal town.]

[She laughs a little when she hears his comment.]

Well, I suppose I cannot serve you out of my drone children's cups, can I?

Why not? Would they get jealous someone else had used them?

[That went way over his head...]

It is a simple matter of courtesy.

[As well as hygiene.]

You would not serve a guest using your family's old silverware, would you?

Why not?

I think people might be interested in an heirloom like silverware, and it's easily cleaned again.

Ah...I am not sure how I should explain this...

[This boy probably came from a very different culture.]

Just call it a custom of my homeland...

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.

[So many cultures here he knows nothing about, it's quite unnerving for someone as used to being culturally savvy as Cain.]

N-no, it is no offense at all. After all, it can be quite tricky trying to understand a foreign culture.

[She herself has a few problems with trying to understand the boy's attitude toward silverware and such.]

Which country are you from back home, may I ask?

[A simple question, but when applied to a person like Bazett, it soon became very complicated. In terms of ancestry, she was Irish, though there might have been one or two Ulster Scots caught up in the family tree. In terms of nationality, or what was written on her passport, she was British. In the end, it was a matter of seeing the United Kingdom as several segregated countries, or one united country.]

...North Ireland, a component state of the United Kingdom.

My brother is British!

...though I've never heard anything about silverware traditions.

Well, perhaps it is a difference in time period then...

[This is not much of a surprise, as Mayfield could pull in beings from several different times.]

And there are regional differences in Britain as well. A person from Scotland would have different cultural habits than one from England.

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