She's familiar with a lot of these foods, actually! She doesn't have a lot of preferences and can't identify plants but at least she recognizes the food parts. But she's familiar with grapes and both the alliums, and she'll write this. Avocados not so much and she agrees to avoid them.

She'd still recommend sticking to small quantities to start with in case there's a difference in the specific varieties, but she'll include the grapes and alliums in the basket if Mabel wants them.

When they're done, brings the chickens the extra melon she crafted for them, transmuting a bit of material from the end of her sleeve into a knife to halve it with; would Mabel like to be the one to give it to them?

No thank you! That's a bit too much newness.

They are very cute though.

They are, especially when they run to get the melon after she tosses it in.

She offers Mabel her hand again to lead her back to the cottage.

Mabel will take it! She's definitely done with the outdoors for the day and will focus mostly on honeysuckle's hand and her own feet as they head back.

Thankfully it's not far.

Does Mabel feel up to portioning out some fruit for the two of them while she goes to get the bread? It's fine if not.

That's fine! She has a knife as part of her toolkit and it's spelled to stay very sharp; she's not going to write this but honeysuckle might note that's it's faster for her.

She'll set some out for both of them and put the rest aside!

And honeysuckle returns with the bread; it's fresh out of the oven and smells wonderful, and she's brought a little decanter of oil to dip it in, as well.

Once they've settled in to eat, she asks: how's Mabel doing? Does she feel like she's getting used to the new world all right, is there anything they ought to be doing differently for her?

Bread!! Bread! Mabel has maybe not been eating as much or as consistently as she should these past few weeks, which in retrospect might have contributed to her accident. She is very excited by the bread.

She writes that mostly everything's fine! She's a little confused still, and everything is still uncomfortably new, but there's not really anything to do about that. Probably the best thing is just for her to keep having conversations and learning new words and maybe getting grammar corrections, because she's sure she's making a lot of mistakes.

There are only two things that maybe could be improved -- one, there's no scrap metal around she can tinker with, could she maybe have some steel or iron sheets or something? And... she has no idea how to phrase this, it's not something she often talks about -- she could use some synthetic estrogen and a testosterone blocker, she usually makes her own but doesn't have materials right now.

They can make her sheets of something if she can describe the traits she wants it to have, sure! And... she's not sure if her mom knows how to separate out estrogen from, presumably, blood, or if she knows a trick for blocking testosterone instead of just arranging for it not to be produced, but she can ask, that's the kind of esoterica she might have picked up somewhere, she specializes in reproductive stuff. Or - uh, did Mabel want those for herself? It'd be much easier to just fleshcraft her about it, if she wants that.

For herself, yes. That's fleshcraftable? That makes sense, actually, Mabel just didn't think through it. She'd like that, thank you!

It's totally fleshcraftable, yeah, with or without any anatomical changes she might be interested in. Honeysuckle's mom should be back around dinnertime, she can ask her to come over afterward if Mabel wants, either to talk through the options or to just go ahead with it.

That sounds wonderful! She'd like that a lot.

She also got distracted from the sheets -- she can try to describe their properties, they're both often used to construct things? Shiny, hard, gray, magnetic-- probably any hard, durable material will do, it doesn't have to be shiny or gray. It shouldn't be brittle, and it shouldn't wear down fast.

Sure - presumably she wants it somewhat bendable, and... cutable, if she's not going to be able to craft it into shape? How does she intend to work with the stuff?

Bendable...not really? It's quite stiff. Usually she cuts it with heat... if it gets hot enough it melts.

She pulls out her tools -- she has a soldering iron, and a little saw she can make larger and heat up.

She's willing to try with something that's easy to cut but she's not sure that will work with what she's thinking of.

She can do something that reacts like that to heat, sure, hold on a sec...

She crafts up a bar of material, in a gradient from black to white with markings every few inches, and offers it to Mabel to figure out which section is about the right degree of meltable.

Mabel's going to grab some water and then do a little experiment -- she's going to pick both a material that melts at a relatively low temperature and one that melts at a relatively high temperature.

Sure, honeysuckle can do both kinds. And... not bendable unless it's hot, not brittle, doesn't wear down or decompose - should it decompose, eventually? it's kind of bad form to make things permanent that don't need to be, she can make it take decades to start - magnetic, presumably the normal comfortable-to-handle density... texture? color? luster?

It doesn't decompose back home but Mabel's okay with it decomposing in a few decades here. It's also pretty dense at home but it doesn't have to be here.

It's smooth, usually cool to the touch, at home it's gray and shiny but it doesn't have to be here?

Cool to the touch implies it conducts heat easily, does Mabel actually want that trait? It'll change how it melts if it doesn't, but not necessarily in a bad way.

She can do grey and shiny, she can do something else, it's all down to what Mabel wants.

Conducting heat easily... actually it would probably be more convenient if it didn't, come to think of it!

Could honeysuckle maybe make it pink? It would be pretty cool if it was pink.

Sure thing. (Craft craft craft, with a powder-pink hand-sized square tile as the result.) How's that?

She pokes at it a little with her tools.

It looks good! Thank you. Can she have maybe... nine of these, or so? She'll probably ask for more later but this is a good start.

She crafts up a dozen, and another dozen with the other melting point with a gentle bevel around the edges to differentiate them, and notes that it'll be easier to make more with a sample to work from, so best if Mabel doesn't use them all up before asking.

They do have two more dictionaries to get through but if Mabel wants the rest of the afternoon to herself that's perfectly fine.

Thank you! She'll keep that in mind.

She'd like to keep going through the dictionaries if possible? She'd really like more words, communication is definitely her top priority right now.