Jelly day 16

[stardustofdawn]

Who: Xingchen and you!
Where: Kitchen, dining car
When: Jelly 16, on platform day, today
What: Helping assemble a belated birthday party!

[With his vision and sight returned, Xingchen discover a simple joy of learning to cook again. To see food, working with food and utensils in the kitchen, he can feel being more useful. Wearing an apron, the kitchen is starting to smell really good, but he realized he needed help]

Hello? Hi, everyone. You know, I not good at aligning the days with the calendar, but I realized my birthday is actually last week on the 25th. While it was belated, I was exhausted from the last mission. I don't celebrate my birthday for years from where I'm from, considering I lived in poverty, so there wasn't much to eat.

I would like to assemble a lunch and dinner, a birthday party today. I haven't baked a cake yet, but this is where you can help. You can meet me in the kitchen. I'm looking to assemble ice cream as well.

If you like to eat, come a little later today to join me. It's on me and my treat.

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[stardustofdawn]

[Everything is good. Life on the train can get busy! He's happy to see friends and colleagues to join him on this day. He's wearing an apron as he's fixing food on the plates and left it on the kitchen counter]

Hello, Tidus. How are you? It's Xingchen. Xiao is my surname. But I'm glad you remembered. [Name like his can be tricky to remember!]

If you like, you can help yourself to the lunch I made. There's fried rice, dumplings, noodles with soups just to name a few that I cook and made for everyone. It's a recipe from what I remembered from my hometown back in my homeworld.

oop name was an error on my part, tidus wouldn't know 'xiao'

[blitzcheer]

Whoa, you really got cooking! All that? Are you inviting the whole train over? I know you were for the cake and ice cream...

[ But he didn't realise how far Xingchen was going with it! Tidus walks in more to take in the selection, but he looks across at Xingchen and the rest of the kitchen. ]

You still need to do the ice cream? You used the machine for that before?

No worries! We can handwave

[stardustofdawn]

Yes, I'm inviting the whole train over. [To express his gratitude and share his joy] I haven't cook properly in years.

Back home, I was blind, so I can't see. I lived with Xue Yang and A-Qing to help me with the cooking when we shared a home.

I'm not familiar, but I do know the fridge kept it cold. Lea introduces me to sea salt ice cream.

[blitzcheer]

[ There's the opening he was hoping for. Though, the mention of Xue Yang and A-Qing makes his eyes lift in surprise, a detail he never knew about- he wonders if to say anything, but decides to keep it to himself. At least right now. ]

Okay, but you being blind. That...changed? [ There is a very obvious answer here, in the very mess of the kitchen right now, but even so- ] Did I...miss somethin'?

[stardustofdawn]

[Xingchen is connected to these people as a family] I have a family here, Tidus. A-Qing, I adopted her when I was travelling town to town blind. Xue Yang is my close friend.

It was Wei Wuxian, my nephew. I am his uncle. He lived here on the train. Somehow, he managed to find a pair of eyes for me. And the healers and doctors on the train figured out an eye transplant surgery. That happened about a month ago. It took me a month to heal and recover so now I can see just fine.

[blitzcheer]

After Nion? [ If he's think back right... ] Wow, so you only recovered pretty recent?

[ If it took about a month... Tidus lets out a breath, surprised mingling with joy. ]

Well- that's great! Good on you, Xingchen! And everyone that helped. I didn't know we had anyone who can do that. [ Well...! ] What's it like? Seeing again.

[stardustofdawn]

I think it's after that? Before the train stops for the Winter Faire? So it's pretty recent.

[So approximately a month]

It feels like there's a lot of color and pictures? No longer dark anymore and I feel more connected to other people, and I can see the worlds the train is trying to save. Also, seeing again, I think being a part of missions is much easier.