bradley catchall

[outsidebones]

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[battling]

[ He's idly looking around like he's expecting a snake to show up and hiss at them to eat ]

Whatever this place is. Never heard of 'em before.

[outsidebones]

Neither have I.

[she squints at the menu.]

What is a Double Crunch Bone-In Wing, exactly?

[battling]

Chicken?

[ With some doubt. Are chickens standard food in the multiverse? ]

Or at least some sorta poultry.

[outsidebones]

Hmm. How would they engineer a chicken to develop extra crunchy bones?

[she's aware of what a chicken is, yeah.]

[battling]

Looks more like it's been fried twice and doused in some kinda sauce.

This one has the bones still in it. [ there is also, oddly to him, boneless wings. Who did that. ]

[outsidebones]

How odd. Why leave them in? It is true bone can be a source of nutrition...but surely it is difficult for children to chew them.

[battling]

Not a cook. Ain't it more work to take 'em out before cookin'?

[outsidebones]

I’m not a cook either. But I believe, on the Ninth, meat-based protein is typically rendered into a paste or dissolved into broth…I have not encountered the variety that still possesses its bones.

[battling]

The Ninth is where you're from? Is meat easier to work with like that?

Long as I remember if it has bones, it gets cooked with the bone.

[outsidebones]

Yes. It is my home.

It spreads further. It is costly to make meat, after all. We almost never had it available.

[battling]

To make?

You can't hunt down somethin' for a meal?

[outsidebones]

No, we don't have animals on the Ninth.

[battling]

[... Bro what.]

Huh. No monsters either? What's there?

[outsidebones]

I didn't say that, did I? [...] We are host to a prison, which orbits the planet, the castle, which is beneath the surface of the planet, our satisfactory but meagre farming colony, as well as the crypts and the tomb.

[battling]

[ Monster = Edible = Animal ]

The Ninth is a satilite around the planet? [ Like the moon? ]

There's just one tomb in all that?

[outsidebones]

No, the Ninth is the planet.

And there are many crypts, but the Tomb is a particularly important tomb.

[battling]

What's so important about it?

[outsidebones]

That is a secret I cannot tell you. You do not hold the proper respect for the Reverend Daughter, not even enough to remember her name, and thus our mysteries are lost to you.

[battling]

So it's like that, huh? [Oh religion. It doesn't mean anything to him. He doesn't mind and he doesn't want to use her name so.] I got enough shit to worry about without another planet added in.

What d'ya wanna eat here?

[outsidebones]

...Maybe a salad.

[mistake.]

[battling]

Yer choice.

[He's going for the chicken, somewhere in the back the food is being made.]

[outsidebones]

[just swinging her legs in the chair as the food is prepared.]

...Have you ever been to a place like this?

[battling]

I've been to restaurants but not like this. The menu's usually more focused.