Video to All | Bassoon day 28 | also action welcome!

[myblueskies]

[Romeo's face grins through the screens. It's been a pretty scary few days and he's been trying to keep his spirits up as much as he can and to help everyone else do the same. It had been pretty tricky though!

But then there had been a message on the screens and Romeo had gone to investigate and found the pumpkins, he knew what they were because he had asked when they had first found them on the platform! But he hadn't known you could make faces out of them!]

Does anyone's world have the tradition about putting faces in pumpkins? I don't think my world did! I didn't know what a pumpkin was before so I guess we didn't! How do you do it?

Also what can you make with pumpkins? They are vegetables right so we could make soup or mash it? Does it taste good mashed? Or we could fry it and eat it with rice or noodles. I'm not sure it would go well with fish but there's still a lot of fish in the store rooms.

I know it's not Blue teams time to cook but tasty food always makes me feel better so if anyone wants to come and have some food I am going to try and make something with a pumpkin and make a face with one as well!

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[faithfulsupport]

[Green eyes looked down at his recipeh, pausing in his own cleaning of the pumpkin.]

Says here three hundred degrees.

[Ignis turned back to the task at hand, making sure he got everything done. Then he consulted his paper again. It wasn't like him to share the kitchen, but this was his team and they were the exception, as he would do for Madoka.]

[myblueskies]

Okay sir! [Three hundred degrees it is! He takes a moment to concentrate as he gets to the oven, he doesn't want to get it wrong!

Soon though the temperature was set and he returned to Ignis' side.] What do we do next?

[faithfulsupport]

Are all of the seeds out of your pumpkin?

[Ignis was finishing his and had started putting them in a bowl to clean off. He grabbed a tray to lay the cleaned ones out once that was done so they could be salted before going into the oven.]

[myblueskies]

Yes! I think so! [He peered into the pumpkin, it was almost big enough for his whole head to fit in! And it was all clean of seeds.] Yep we got them all!

[He watched what Ignis was doing and copied him, cleaning the seeds and putting them on the tray.]

[faithfulsupport]

[Ignis nodded]

Alright.

[Taking the cleaned seeds, he patted them down with napkins in a small attempt to dry them a bit before laying them out on a tray and salting them.]

Once the oven is done preheating, we'll put these in and we'll get the pumpkins ready.

[myblueskies]

Yes sir!

[He skipped over to check. Yes! The little light had gone off which meant it was hot enough! He went back to collect the tray and carried it very carefully to the oven.]

[faithfulsupport]

[While Romeo did that, Ignis got another tray prepared and set the pumpkin halves on there. Then he put that in the oven too.

Moving around, he started cleaning up.]

Now we wait.

[myblueskies]

[He helped with the clean up, that's a really important part of cooking too!] How long will it take?

[faithfulsupport]

[Green eyes looked at the recipeh and he read through how long to cook it for.]

About forty five to fifty minutes. We'll poke it with a fork and see at that time.

[myblueskies]

"Yes sir! Um. Can we make the oven beep when that time is done?"

A little embarrassed, he's not good with time. Or numbers. He has been practising very hard but time is really tricky!

[faithfulsupport]

[He nodded]

You can set the timer, or I can do it.

[Ignis thought a moment.]

Better yet, I'll set a timer on my phone.

[So he pulled it out and set one, before handing it to Romeo.]

[myblueskies]

You have a phone? [Romeo nodded and took it carefully, looking at the timer.]

Can you phone people or does it not work? Can you go on the big library... the internet?

[faithfulsupport]

[He shakes his head at the question. The internet is a big library? That would be a grand thing indeed.]

I can't call anyone and no internet either. But I used to be able to do those things.

[myblueskies]

Oh. [He nodded.] I had a phone in heaven, it was lots of work to learn how to use it all but once I learned it was really useful!

[Searching the internet-library for all the big words Hibiki had used meant that he didn't get told off for being stupid as much!]

[faithfulsupport]

A phone in heaven?

[Ignis couldn't imagine such a thing to exist, but Romeo would know more than he himself would.]

Well yes, phones are quite useful.

[How in the world did phones work in heaven?]

[myblueskies]

Yes! I got it when I first went there but I didn't know how to use it or what it was. My friend showed me how to use it though and it was really useful because I could talk to all my friends and not have to search for hours for them and I could look up things like words if I didn't know what they meant and it was much quicker than a dictionary!

[faithfulsupport]

[Ignis is wondering if this is even a possible thing.]

You can phone your friends from heaven..

[Okay that sounded weird even suggest..]

And while you were there..you phoned those not there with you?

[Wait, did this mean that Romeo was among the dead then?]

[myblueskies]

Oh. No sir. I could phone my other friends in heaven. I don't know anyone not in heaven. Well I do now because I know you and the other people from the train but I don't really got any memories from before I died and I think I lived on another different world then.

[He sighs] It's a bit complicated!

[faithfulsupport]

[This made Ignis actually worry less now that he knew. So this little one was like Tony. Ah, well this talk of talking to other friends in heaven made a lot more sense now. The boy got a smile and he sighed.]

You don't need to explain if it's complicated. But you can relax here, you're among friends.

[Just because the boy had passed in his world, it didn't mean that Ignis wasn't going to work his ass off to protect this boy.]

[myblueskies]

I am sir! It's good that there's so many friendly people on this train!

[There had been lots of friendly people in the heavens as well so that was good! Even though he misses all his friends there he is glad that he has found another place full of nice people!]

[faithfulsupport]

[He smiled but only slightly.]

It has been rather interesting to meet so many different people. Fortunately they've all been rather friendly so far.

[Six help anyone that threatened the children on board, especially those on Ignis' team.]

[myblueskies]

They have!

[And mister Ignis was one of the most friendly. Romeo was really glad to have met him.]

How long before the seeds are all cooked, sir?

[faithfulsupport]

We'll check them now.

[Ignis put on his mitts and opened the oven door. They were perfect in Ignis' eyes and he took them out, leaving the pumpkins in there. The timer went off and the advisor reset it.]

It won't be long before the rest of it is ready.

[Finding salt, he placed the thinnest layer on the seeds.]

Give them a moment to cool and we'll see how they came out.

[myblueskies]

Wow they look so tasty! [He had followed Ignis over though he had been careful to stay back when Ignis had opened the oven. He watched how he prepared the seeds and grinned at him.]

But best we don't burn our fingers!

[faithfulsupport]

Quite.

[Half scooping the seeds up with a spatula, he deposited them into a bowl and set them on the table, preparing the tray to get washed. There was a nod and a smile at Romeo.]

Do try some and let me know how they are. And remember, no burning yourself.