011 Resolutions

[kinships]

[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

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[answerer_sword]

[Bazett had gone inside her house to get a drink when the window was smashed from behind her. She throws open the door, ready to punch whoever did it. She is greeted with the sight of a little boy looking horrified.]

Did you do this?

[answerer_sword]

[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.

[kinships]

[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.

[answerer_sword]

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?

[kinships]

...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.]

[answerer_sword]

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."

[kinships]

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.

[answerer_sword]

If you say so...

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

Which flavor would you prefer?

[kinships]

Just ordinary, please.

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

[answerer_sword]

[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.]

[kinships]

[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.

[answerer_sword]

[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?

[kinships]

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

[That went way over his head...]

[answerer_sword]

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?

[kinships]

Why not?

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

[answerer_sword]

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...