It's the pancake hour

[quietaura]

Who: Lie Ren & anyone in/visiting the Remnant House
Where: Remnant House, Nova City
When: April 2nd
What: Nora's gone. Ren is trying to cope by making (too many) pancakes.
Warnings: None for now.

[Ren wasn't sure how to deal with this kind of separation. This was the first time Nora had actually left his side for this long. She had gone back to their world. She wasn't here. His room suddenly felt very empty without her and it was driving him nuts. Especially when he didn't have work today.

So what was he doing? He had taken over the kitchen and he was making pancakes.

Chocolate, Banana, Blueberry - even coffee and melon flavored pancakes. He was just making anything he might come up with and offering them to anyone walking by the kitchen and eating none himself. He just focused on cooking.

Someone should probably either eat a lot of pancakes or make him stop.]

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[Blake had been ignoring her stomach for about an hour now. It was a bad habit of hers when she was nose deep in a book. It was always a couple of more pages. Then she'd listen to her stomach. Then those pages turned into chapters. The smell coming from the kitchen was not helping much. A particularly aggressive rumble from her gut had her finally shutting the book and strolling down the hallway to see what was going on.

She stopped in the doorway when she reached her destination.]

That's....a lot of pancakes. Are we having guests for dinner?

[quietaura]

[He's just about to make some spinach and carrot pancakes as Blake walks in.]

I do not think so. [They really are rather green, the pancakes. Hopefully they'll taste alright.]

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Then why the mountain of - are you even paying attention to the ingredients you're using?

[Blake looks alarmed as she observes a batch that's turning a color that pancakes should never be. She takes what looks like a chocolate and pumpkin one. At least, she really hopes that's what it is and decides that it may as well be her dinner. Since he made so many and all.

She watches him for a moment over her glass of milk trying to decide whether she should pry or not.]

[quietaura]

I am well aware of what ingredients I am using.

[He says this as he mixes the ingredients. Of course, he's never tired making spinach or carrot pancakes before... but it can't turn all bad? Especially since they won't be sweet pancakes.]

If you are unsure, there are fresh regular pancakes over there.

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[Blake indicates the pancakes she's already helped herself too and thankfully they are normal.]

Ren...what's wrong? [Cutting straight to chase. She doesn't know Ren well and he doesn't really talk much, but it is rare to see him unfocused.]

[quietaura]

... Nora is gone. We have never been apart for this long.

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I see. [Blake kind of understands what that's like. Of course, it was her choice to separate from Adam, so this is not the same thing.]

People that I've met here say they remember me even though I don't remember anything...there's a chance it might be temporary. [It's a tiny thread of encouragement, but nonetheless it is possible.]

Do you need any help? [She's not good at comforting people like Yang. Blake is only good at dealing with what's in front of her. She can't make his partner reappear, but she can help him with his mountain of pancakes until whatever he's feeling burns itself out.

[aurabble]

[The silence on Nora's end had been more telling than anything. Of course he was worried about Ren.

Ren's not the talkative type to begin with, but he can try to distract him while he also gets rid of some of those pancakes. Seriously that's a lot of pancakes. He chooses a melon flavored one first.]

We should go do something later. When you're finished making enough pancakes to...make a pancake fighting robot out of.

[quietaura]

[It would be good to distract him before he makes something ridiculous. He's running out of good ingredients from the kitchen.]

I would hope these get either eaten or stored, rather than be used in a fight.

[Their refrigerator would be full.]

What do you suggest?

[monkeystowaway]

[Sun knows how rough it is to lose someone here. It happens to all of them, and honestly if it hasn't yet, then it will eventually.]

We'll be having pancakes for dinner for a month if you keep this up.

[quietaura]

I was thinking of storing some of them. I am sure there are ways to keep the taste.

[That or he could always go give them to random citizens in Nova if there was too much. He just wanted to keep making them...]

[whiteas]

[ Weiss doesn't bring up what happened or bother telling him he's making way too many. She just takes a couple of blueberry ones, then starts getting out some ziplock bags. ]

I'm going to freeze some of these for later, Ren.

[ Emergency pancake stock. ]

[quietaura]

[Ren nods as he's... doing a mix that includes red beans...?]

That would be great.

[whiteas]

[ Weiss gives him a doubtful look. Mostly because she's never had sweet red beans before so she's assuming like. Kidney bean flavor or something like that. ]

Ren.. I wasn't going to say anything, but those are beans.

[quietaura]

These are sweet beans. It is apparently a Japanese thing.

[He's been reading cook books on his free time.]

[whiteas]

And they go in pancakes?

[ Weiss is definitely more open to trying new things after being in Genessia for so long, but no one's brought up red beans to her before. ]

[quietaura]

That I do not know, and that is what I am testing.

[It's called experimenting.]

[whiteas]

I think you can just search the internet for that answer, but okay.

[ Weiss is more of a research and develop kind of girl than a blind experiments girl. ]

[fallsuccession]

[Pyrrha just happened to be off today, so walking into the kitchen and finding Ren making pancakes made her watch silently at first. Nora leaving had been hard on her too, but it must have been worse for Ren... But this amount of pancakes....]

Are you trying to feed an army?