Second Floor Common Room, Tuesday Afternoon

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There was a Camp Pining Hearts marathon on the television. Peridot had found out about it mostly by accident, and was now fixated on the television screen for what was probably going on the eleventh episode, now. She'd needed to break for class that morning, true, but that only meant that by the time she returned to the television, she had a rather

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[crimson_sister]

"Peridot," Lucille said, having noticed her in the common room. She didn't intend to stay as there were noisy things playing on the television, but she had received a flower from the gem this morning.

"I wanted to thank you for the carnation. It was very kind of you." And very surprising, considering Peridot's understanding of things, but Lucille interpreted this as an improvement in social skills.

Then she saw the marshmallows. "Oh. You brought things with you from class." Lucille had a sweet tooth. She also knew that Peridot didn't eat.

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"I did," Peridot replied, looking at the marshmallows speculatively. "I thought somebody might as well get some use out of them."

She still had her bread.

She could probably kill a person with that bread, by now.

"Did you... like... the carnation? I understand that humans give them to other humans as gestures of goodwill."

Or, at least, that's more or less what she'd picked up from television.

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"I liked the carnation very much," Lucille said. It wasn't untrue, she did like flowers even if she preferred them in other colors. But perhaps it was a good thing that Peridot hadn't sent her a dark red one.

She reached out a hand and picked up a marshmallow. One dipped in chocolate, not in cheese. She hadn't noticed the latter yet. "Sharing food is very kind."

She would have eating the bread before it got rock hard, Peridot.

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"Is it sharing if I don't plan to eat any as well?"

She still wasn't completely sure about the specifics of sharing, but so long as Lucille seemed to approve, that was good enough for Peridot.

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"I would say it is," Lucille said, as this was probably the most encouraging answer. "It is not your fault that you can't eat them.

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"That's true," Peridot mused, smiling a little. Apparently, this answer satisfied her. "Well, then you're welcome to eat as much as you like."

Of the chocolate or the cheese ones, whichever was best.

[crimson_sister]

Having finished the nice chocolate one, Lucille accidentally picked one with cheese. And made a face.

"Cheese? That is... an unusual combination."

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"Unusual? It is?" Peridot blinked down at the marshmallows curiously. "Which one is the cheese?"

It wasn't like she could tell cheese from chocolate, given her current level of experience with either.

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"The yellow one," Lucille clarified, somehow not surprised by the question. "It is usually eaten with bread."

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Peridot perked up a little at that one.

"I know how to make that!"

But... she had no more cheese. Oops.

[crimson_sister]

"You learnt it in class? I am sure offering homemade bread to the students here would be appreciated."

Lucille would appreciate it. As for cheese, perhaps Peridot could make it herself? Or buy it in a shop?

"Bread also goes well with marmalade."

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There was more curious headtilting at that.

"Marmalade? What's that?"

Something that probably went better with marshmallows than cheese did, right?

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"You cook citrus fruit with sugar until it goes sticky," Lucille explained. "I am sure there are recipes to be found."

Lucille would offer to try it out. If Peridot followed a recipe she was unlikely to come up with unappetizing combinations, she suspected.

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If Peridot treated it like a chemistry exercise, it would probably turn out just fine, in fact!

"... I might have to attempt that. Perhaps it would make people more willing to eat my bread."

Not the rock-hard loaf that her robotic duck still had with it, though.

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"People didn't want to eat your bread?" Lucille asked, wondering what had been wrong with it.

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"Well, I couldn't find anybody to ask," Peridot shared. "And then JARVIS suggested feeding it to the ducks, but I didn't know what a duck was, so I built one. And it still didn't eat the bread."

Because, much like Peridot, it didn't need to.