Posted by Commander Shedda Mal’athar (Executive Officer) in A Day With Koro

Posted by Commander Shedda Mal’athar (Executive Officer) in A Day With Koro

Posted by Civilian Char’les Harv (Officer’s Mess Chef) in A Day With Koro
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Harv nodded once and went to work. In a slightly longer time than it took to make Koro’s sandwich, he had another sandwich made up. A different bread,slightly more firm than Koro’s, held some kind of cold deli salad with various vegetables on top; all held together with two large toothpicks.

Harv

“This looks delightful. Thank you Harv,” apparently Shedda was on her very best, exceptional behavior with her young friend around, or perhaps she was simply relaxed. “Come on Koro let’s sit at a table. After you can come learn more of Harv’s magic.” She led the way back out of the kitchen. She sat at the table and tried bot to be dubious about the sandwich. It looked complicated. She was however pleasantly surprised that it had a strong flavor but not too many of them. The bread also reminded her of home.

Shedda

Koro set his sandwich on the table, clambered back into a chair, and continued munching on his lunch. He looked out the windows every so once in awhile between bites, but mostly he was just focused on eating. About three-quarters through, Koro looked up at Shedda with a curious look. “Shedda, I got Mirane a present. Could I do something for Mira too? And maybe Surane when he gets here?”

~Koro

Shedda finished her bite before answering. “I think that would be a lovely idea. Let’s see how much time we have left after you help Chef Harv with his kitchen magic. If not, I will take you my next day off, okay?”

“Okay!” Koro, his usual amiable self accepting the answer.

Shedda finished her food and waited for Koro. Then she grabbed their plates to return. “Ready to go help?”

Shedda

With an eager nod, Koro slipped off the chair and grabbed his plate, rushing to the kitchen, though he paused to step in carefully so he wouldn’t run into anyone. Mira had warned him about that often enough.

“Harv! Can we do magic now?” he said, slipping his plate up onto the counter.

~Koro

Shedda grinned at Koro’s enthusiasm. She started to tell him to be careful going through the door, but he had already slowed.

Harv grinned and said “We can, but first you must learn the two most important lessons of kitchen magic. One, you have to be dressed for it.” Harv walked over with a rolled up and folded apron he had apparently made so Koro could wear it. He tied the apron around him and made sure his clothes were covered. He then knelt down in front of him and said “Second, we have to make sure we are ready to begin. To do that, we have to make sure everything is clean and ready. So let’s wash your plate and make sure we have what we need, okay?”

Chef Harv

The apron was a nice touch. Shedda wasn’t going to hover and get in the way, but she wasn’t going to leave Harv to take over her responsibility to Koro. Though from the look of things they absolutely did not need her. So she simply took up a spot that she hoped would be out of the way and watched.

Shedda

“Okay! ” Koro said with an eager grin. He couldn’t quite reach his plate after sliding it up onto the counter, but he was trying.

A moment later, the swing doors moved and admitted Sair, dressed in her usual work garb (black trousers and a ‘medical blue’ coloured tunic. She wasn’t sure what to expect when she saw that Koro and Shedda were in the Officer’s Mess, and Shedda didn’t know about the tension between her and Harv, but none of that appeared anywhere on the Kobliad’s expression. There was still a couple of hours before she was to pick up Koro.

“Mira!” Koro said, running over and throwing himself at her legs. “Is it time to go?”

She laughed and crouched down, wrapping her arms around him, as if she just needed to feel his solid presence for a moment. “No, sweetheart, I just needed to talk to Shedda for a moment,” Sair said as she ran a hand over his mop of hair. “What are you up to?”

“Magic!” he breathed.

A quizzical look passed over her face as she parsed the Standard word that really didn’t have a Kobliad equivalent. At least not in their contemporary dialect. “Tell me about this magic.”

“We’re doing kitchen magic!” he said, suddenly very serious.

Understanding bloomed on her face and she nodded gravely. “Oh that is a special sort of thing for sure. Don’t let me stop your work. I can’t wait to hear all about it later, okay?”

Koro nodded eagerly and gave her a big hun before bouncing back over to Harv. “How do we make sure everything is clean and ready?” he asked him.

Sair watched for a moment with nothing short of awe on her face before she turned to Shedda. “Do you have a moment?”

~Sair Songz, CNS