dycroft | 007 ☀ Stahn Aileron, Kashuu Kiyomitsu

Yeah! I always like grilled things, so... maybe it'll work! We won't know unless we try, anyway.

[at least nobody can say stahn isn't willing to try most foods at least once.

even if this probably doesn't even qualify as food.

and even if it does, it's not like either of them actually knows how to prepare it. this is going to be well beyond a disaster in every way, but stahn's incredibly optimistic for the notion anyway.]

Okay - but not this one. This one's way too pretty to eat!

[Congrats, purple starfish... Being purple has saved you from being arbitrarily murdered and probably not even consumed by these two dinguses who just want to do their best but need So Much Help.]

Maybe we can find some other things to eat while we're out here, too. Like crabs or clams... We can make a seafood hotpot!

[Don't go to the beach to pick up dinner.]

Oh! A seafood hotpot sounds really good—I bet we could find some crabs too if we look really hard!

[this is the best-worst idea ever, clearly. stahn's kind of getting hungry just thinking about a seafood hotpot.

...not that he actually even knows how to make hotpot.

they'll figure it out though, probably.]

[Magically, that's one thing Kashuu can actually manage! Group meals are like, the only thing he knows how to cook... Outside of just straight-up throwing potatoes into a leaf pile to roast.]

Let's go, let's go! It's too bad they don't have any of the super good fish this close to the shore... Oh-- there's a crab now!

[A LITTLE TINY ONE just trying to scuttle its way home. Kashuu immediately gets up to nyoom after it...]

[it's a good thing one of them has that part down, at least. because stahn should probably not be trusted with a hotpot alone.]

We'll probably need more than that thought, right? It's pretty small!

[that would definitely not be enough crab to suffice, especially not with stahn's appetite.]

Oh—there's another one! [this time, it's stahn's turn to go nyooming after crabs.]

[FORTUNATELY THEY WON'T BURN THE HOUSE DOWN. At least, not this time... Not with a hotpot burner... Future instances will have to be determined on a case-by-case basis......]

Good work, good work! Yours is a little fatter than mine, I think.

[Kashuu trudges back with his pinched between his finger and thumb carefully, so it can't pinch him back.]

Let's put 'em in a bucket! They can live there together until it's time to eat them.

[...well, if nothing else, kashuu is definitely a little more careful than stahn about this, because he's definitely going to make a face when his crab starts pinching him.

he's fine?

it's nothing he can't handle, so he's just going to ignore that for now (and maybe eventually follow kashuu's lead on that one while he asks the obviously more important questions.]

Oh! Do we have a bucket to put them in?

[Please don't get your fingers pinched off by a little tiny crab, Stahn...]

I brought one to put my supplies in, yeah.

[TROTTING OVER to the towels they left behind 100 pages ago to fetch said bucket! Unlike most normal people, his supplies aren't beach toys but are things like Extra Strength Sunbalm and three different pairs of sunglasses.]

Here! This'll work, yeah?

[he'll be fine, probably. or maybe he needs better babysitters for situations like this? who knows.

either way, stahn can't really question or judge kashuu's choice in beach supplies, especially considering the haphazard way in which he showed up for this day. it's fine.

besides, if kashuu's making good on his word here, does it really matter?]

Mm! That seems like it'll work... They'll be okay in a bucket, right?

Well, they shouldn't be able to scuttle up the sides and escape, if that's what you mean.

[If he means their general comfort, Kashuu doesn't think it's much of an issue considering they're gonna be deda and eaten soon... Perhaps. Depending on whether or not they can actually get a good bounty harvested here.

If all they end up with is starfish, tiny clams and tiny crabs, Kashuu might suggest rethinking it...]

[stahn's not terribly concerned with their general comfort because he knows they're crabs and they're going to be eaten. mostly he's concerned with making sure they don't get deda before they're ready to be eaten.

foul crabs just sounds like a mistake.]

Mm, I guess it should be okay, then! I just wanted to make sure... I've never caught crabs like this before!

Neither have I!

[Why... But he manages to seem confident even when he apparently has no idea what he's doing, at least. Is that a pro or a con?? It's a mystery.]

We can just check on the old ones when we bring new ones over.

[Make sure they're still alive and kicking their tiny crab legs and waving around their angry crab claws and all.]

[it's probably a pro. at least, it is for stahn? but stahn goes along with things pretty easily as long as it doesn't conflict with his morality, so there's that.]

That's a good idea! Then we won't have to worry about anything and we'll be all ready for our hotpot later!

[you're a genius, kashuu!! maybe...]

[EMPHASIS ON THE MAYBE.]

Right? Two birds, one stone! ...That's the saying, yeah?

[He sure does his best... He's also going to shuffle back off toward the water as soon as he dumps his one lone crab into the bucket. It makes a teeny tiny thunk sound and then some scratching noises as it begins skittering around in there...]

What else is good for eating out here, anyway? Seaweed? Should we get some of that...?

Maybe? I don't really know! I never really ate lots of seafood before.

[not that stahn's never had it, there's plenty of things he likes. but growing up inland means that there's a lot about preparing the food that leaves him in the dark. eating stuff? he's got it.

actually having any idea what goes into preparing it?

that's a different story entirely, save for freshwater fish from the river in his hometown.]

[Oh lord, it's the blind leading the blind here... Who let either one of them free without a babysitter?? They're going to get back to cook everything and the first babysitter to lay eyes on their bucket is going to be like what the heck.]

...Well, that's fine! We'll just figure it out as we go. Sample while we cook! And if something doesn't taste good, we can just use it as compost or whatever.

[Compost with dead sea animals and seaweed... Someone hasn't thought this through.]

[it's true in all respects, and one or both of them is going to get scolded for their terrible ideas. but it's fine.

it's all fine, they're fine. everything is fine.]

Mm, I guess we can do that too! We can't know unless we try anyway, so I guess we should just try everything!

[because that is totally how it works.]

[ONCE YOU ITALICIZE EVERYTHING IS FINE, YOU KNOW IT'S NOT FINE.]

Good plan.

[Not a good plan but it's the plan he's going with. OFF HE GOES to collect more sealife... Insert montage here of chasing down crabs and digging up clams and grabbing clumps of seaweed and then screaming because it feels awful.

Eventually, the bucket is just full of Junk. Just Junk. But damn, does he look proud...]

How's this?

[it's full of junk for sure, and stahn....

well, he doesn't know better. which is absolutely the problem, because even if it seems kind of off to him, all he can do is look at the bucket with his head tilted to one side.]

I think it's probably okay...?

[For the 50000th time: where are their babysitters when they're needed.]

Good, good! If it's not enough, we can just add extra eggs and vegetables or whatever.

[Is this going to be a seafood hotpot or a vegetable hotpot with a few sad clams and tiny crabs...]

[it's really hard to say. and yet...

stahn's not complaining.]

That sounds good to me! You sound like you really know how to make a good hotpot, Kashuu!

[or maybe stahn just sucks at it that much? who knows, who knows.]

[STAHN PLEASE DON'T BE THIS BAD AT MAKING HOTPOT.]

Let's head back, then! As much as I'd love sticking around out here a little more, these little guys will probably fry up in the bucket before we can even get around to cooking 'em if we leave them out here for long.

[Appetizing...

He'll gather up their little bucket of treasures after that, in any case, looking so proud. GOOD WORK, TEAM. You did it.]

Oh, right. You have a good point. They'll go bad if that happens too soon, too, and then we'll be out of luck for our hot pot...

[even stahn isn't that dumb, he knows that seafood does not last sitting around like that, especially on a hot beach day.

congrats stahn, sometimes you get this much right.]

Yeah, a hot pot with only veggies and seaweed or whatever wouldn't be any good.

[As if one with tiny crabs and little shallows minnows and shit will be any better?! High aspirations for the taste of this dish happening here, apparently.

...

Actually, that brings something else to mind. Something that's probably important.]

...How do you even prepare crabs? Or fish this tiny?

Can't you just boil them?

[somehow, they're going to make a hot pot without actually... knowing how to prepare things.

they're doomed.

someone might die today, it seems.]

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i cant believe this became a tiny crab chase

i can, bc they're still such moerons

truly, til the end... smh

it could never be any other way lbr

you are not incorrect LORD...

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