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[shiro2hero]

[There sure is a fire in the middle of camp.]

[Okay, yes, true. There should be fires. Everyone is camping, after all. Those fires are vital to the health and survival of everyone currently in Hisui! So of course there's a fire in the middle of camp.]

[Except...]

[This is not one of those kinds of fires.]

[This fire is in the cooking area. Where some poor, unsuspecting Guild member let Shiro step in to assist... with predictable results. He was just supposed to be making salad.]

[Just a salad.]

[And yet?]

[The salad is on fire.]




[Please help.]

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[shiro2hero]

No! I was just - trying to chop it!

[He's not really yelling, just kind of shocked.]

[questioneverything]

With your laser hand?

[Wait... that didn't work here, did it? Romelle couldn't remember ever seeing him actually use it here. Not that she'd seen him use it much back home, either, before... well... But, still! She'd heard from the others that it could like glow and heat things up and do things, but... not here? She wasn't sure.]

[shiro2hero]

No... no, just the. Regular hand.

[There's no defense here, Romelle. Nothing he can say will make this better. It's just a disaster all around.]

I have no idea how it happened.

[questioneverything]

[She looked around, then, still hoping to find a reason.]

Perhaps you were just too close to one of the campfires.

[She was trying, really.]

[shiro2hero]

I'm just cursed, Romelle.

Just... plain cursed.

[He's being a bit dramatic, but oh well. It definitely feels like he's cursed.]

[questioneverything]

Wait... are curses real?

[She'd never thought they were, really, but... well, this certainly seemed like fairly decent proof they might be.]

Surely then there's a countercurse or some way to break it, right?

[shiro2hero]

... It's - it's a saying. It's okay Romelle, it's just a saying.

[Wow he did not think she'd believe it. Not even remotely.]

It just means my luck is terrible.

[questioneverything]

Ah... I see. [Honestly, there were a lot of things Romelle wasn't sure if she could believe or not. She was trying to keep an open mind, just in case something could be true.]

Um... did you want... some help?

[shiro2hero]

[Romelle offers help and Shrio looks like she's just offered him a miracle.]

Please?

[Please help him. He swears he's not usually this much of a disaster.]

[questioneverything]

[She gave him a sympathetic laugh and nodded.]

Of course. How could I say no?

[Really, when he had that look on his face, it was hard.]

[shiro2hero]

Thank you. You're some kind of miracle.

[Honestly any kind of cooking skill is a miracle where he's concerned.]

I really owe you one for this.

[questioneverything]

[Romelle shook her head. Granted, maybe she was something of a miracle, at least for Allura and Coran, but she definitely wasn't one when it came to cooking. Thankfully, even with just the basic meals they had on the colony, a salad hadn't been something so rare and complicated that she couldn't put one together.]

It's no trouble at all, Shiro, really. You don't owe me anything.

[She would just... settle in here and get to work.]

[shiro2hero]

[Even a basic meal is a miracle when you set even a salad on fire. So, for anyone who asks, Shiro's going to consider her some kind of miracle. Not to mention the whole finding another Altean in the universe thing. But that's probably something for Allura to disclose. Not him.]

Let me know if there's anything I can do... that isn't near the actual. Cooking.

[So he doesn't cause another firestorm.]

[questioneverything]

How are you at clean up?

{She smiled. Heck. If she was going to prep and make the meal, he could definitely clean up afterwards as she packed it for transport.]

[shiro2hero]

I can do that.

[That's said with a smile, fortunately. Clean up is something he can absolutely handle.]

[Rimshot included.]

[questioneverything]

[Too bad Romelle wouldn't know what a rimshot was.]

Thanks!

[So, she'd work on finishing up things while he helped to clean!]