mmm, pancakes

[pandion]

Andi is up first again the next morning. She pads downstairs.

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[aeskhyne]

Trouble is in the kitchen, quietly inventorying.

[pandion]

"What's for breakfast?" Andi inquires. "Are you making breakfast?"

[aeskhyne]

"Course I'm making breakfast," he says. "Pancakes sound good?"

[pandion]

"Pancakes sound sizzly, which is good, sizzly is a nice food sound," says Andi, lazily sprawling herself in a kitchen chair and onto the table.

[aeskhyne]

He giggles softly. "All right, pancakes it is."

[pandion]

"Did things wind up okay with Ax last night?"

[aeskhyne]

"I think so. I went to bed pretty soon after we talked. You want your pancakes nowish, or when everybody else wakes up?"

[pandion]

"Eh, I can wait, unless they take forever."

[aeskhyne]

"Okay. Lemme know if you get hungry."

In the meantime, he sets out all the ingredients.

[pandion]

"You and Ax friends now?"

[aeskhyne]

"Good question. Maybe I'll ask him."

[pandion]

"I dunno about that, kind of a heavy question, 'are we friends'."

[aeskhyne]

"How else am I gonna find out?"

[pandion]

"Ob...serving? If friend things happen?"

[aeskhyne]

"'Friend things' is kind of different for everybody, isn't it?"

[pandion]

"Yeah, I guess."

[aeskhyne]

"And with most people I can guess, but him I don't know well enough."

[pandion]

"I took it as a pretty encouraging sign when I brought him the stars and he told me this was a kindness and asked me about the water thing instead of going to Bella about it," offers Andi.

[aeskhyne]

"Yeah, that does sound encouraging. He told me he liked 'em, too."

[pandion]

"The stars? Yeah. I'm glad they help, being claustrophobic doesn't sound fun."

[aeskhyne]

"Yeah, I bet it's not. I get some of it when I morph Andalites, but I'm pretty sure starting out human makes a difference. Not to mention starting out me."

[pandion]

"You're, what, particularly un-claustrophobic?"

[aeskhyne]

"More like - on most things, I can get pretty damn uncomfortable before it really starts bothering me."

[pandion]

"...If you aren't bothered by a thing how is it even technically uncomfortable?"

[aeskhyne]

"Mmm... you'd call a papercut uncomfortable even if it wasn't that annoying and you could mostly ignore it, right? I feel that way about a broken arm. I just have a really high tolerance for unpleasant shit."