"Excellent. I can always use a good taste-tester. Cooking's a family tradition--" For her and Em, anyway. "My cousin and I cook together for holidays and birthdays and whenever people are upset and need somewhere to gather and talk," she explained as she led him toward the actual kitchen in use.

"That's what made me think to do this. At the castle...where we live at home, we have a big shared kitchen. Whenever there's a battle, or someone's hurt and we're worried, someone starts cooking and pretty soon there's five or six of us and everyone else is eating and talking and laughing or crying. It's nice. I figured we could use something like that here."

ooc: so so sorry for the delay. Life went a little crazy for awhile.