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It is a few hours into a projected 168 of them. Haru is trying to get back to sleep while his mother holds him, because 168 hours is going to feel a lot longer if he can't figure out how to sleep while lonelier than ought to be humanly possible.
Suddenly not having his mother holding him is certainly a way to ruin the attempt.
"Wow. Well, any box of pasta with a little packet of cheese powder you turn into a sauce will do the trick."
"You actively prefer these to cuisine that requires more complicated preparation immediately before eating?"
"I wouldn't go so far as to say actively? I'm used to it, and I guess if I never have authentic KD again because I'm trapped in a universe that doesn't have it that would be among the thousands of problems with that situation but I won't miss it for a week."
"I enjoy cooking and consider myself good at it. If you want these things Ariel will get them for you, but I will largely be preparing my own meals separately; you're not conveniencing me by choosing them and you're not imposing on me in choosing something - more selective."
"If you're going to be cooking all the time anyway and it's not extra trouble to fix some for me too I will eat what you make, you're a good cook."
"...it's going to be my birthday somewhere in this mess and cake is traditional. I am presently confused about the date in a way that I think has to do more with interdimensional transit than with backlash."
"Usually on my birthday we go out for steak, not because I like steak dramatically better than anything else but because it's nice enough to have in the rotation and expensive enough to need an excuse."
"Steak it is, then. I suppose that to you cultured is more novel and desirable than the costlier kind."
"It does taste better, too. Literally the only benefit of eating a piece of an actual cow is that it's, like, fancy."
"As you prefer! When would you like your celebration to be, regardless of whether this corresponds perfectly to the relevant date?"
"Well, I started awakening in the middle of the night before, uh... Wednesday, which was the twelfth, and my birthday's the thirteenth... it doesn't matter, this week is going down in history as Awakening Week and then after that I will be eighteen and an esper and it just really doesn't matter."
"And if I'm not heading out till later, you have a while to think of other things you might want. In the meantime, ready to try out some co-op games?"
To the living room! (Well, to the sink with their dishes and then that.) "Did you want the puzzley kind or the party kind?"
"Well, it'll be sort of encouraging if I can do puzzles at all right now so we could try that first."
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