@nulltune​ asked:  [ COOK ] for our muses to cook a meal

spending time together // open

cooking is one of those things you neither excel nor fail in― at least, not in your opinion, because for the past few hundred years, you have only had to cook for yourself. thus, you have only had to appeal to your own tastes, for the most part. the only real exceptions have been the few times you’ve helped in the kitchen in the wizard’s manor or when you’ve had to entertain guests in your own home― which is usually just your sister when she decides to visit from your childhood home in the west. but, when you stumble upon hakuno in the kitchen and are met with a request for help... well, who are you to say no?

❝does this always happen when nero isn’t here to do the cooking for everyone?❞ you ask with a soft laugh, approaching the counter with your awkward gait. there’s no cruelty behind your teasing, just some light-hearted fun. besides, you can’t quite help yourself when you’ve just watched her cut an avocado straight through the pit and then wonder what it even was. it’s endearing, really.

still, you graciously help by taking another knife and helping her remove the remains of the pit from the slice she’s made from the avocado. ❝in fact, you don’t keep that in there,❞ you explain as you work, then grab another fruit for yourself. ❝there’s a much easier way to remove the pit from the fruit as well, by simply cutting into it until the knife meets the seed, then cutting around it with the knife. then you can take it out with the knife, too.❞ a demonstration on your own avocado accompanies the explanation ( verbal instructions were never your forte anyway ), and then a smile is directed her way again.

❝fortunately, with a little bit more effort, we can salvage what remains of your first one too~ so worry not, miss hakuno. ah, but― may i ask what it is we are making? or is this the sort of thing where we make it up as we go~?❞