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Voice, un: eve
WHO: Eve
WHERE: Network, the cottage
WHEN: A few days before Christmas
WHAT: Isekai ponders the mysteries of Terry's Chocolate Orange
WARNINGS: Eventual violence against chocolate
[A photograph of one foil covered Terry's chocolate orange accompanies this post.]
I got a chocolate covered orange? The strange shopkeeper said it was a Christmas tradition.
The packaging says to "whack and unwrap" but...
Won't that damage the orange?
WHERE: Network, the cottage
WHEN: A few days before Christmas
WHAT: Isekai ponders the mysteries of Terry's Chocolate Orange
WARNINGS: Eventual violence against chocolate
[A photograph of one foil covered Terry's chocolate orange accompanies this post.]
I got a chocolate covered orange? The strange shopkeeper said it was a Christmas tradition.
The packaging says to "whack and unwrap" but...
Won't that damage the orange?
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[Eve shuffles over to the kitchen sink area, carefully opening the drawers with her non-sharp fingers. Ah ha. She pulls said small wooden board out, raising it up. Victory!]
Found it.
[She scoots back towards Vash with her find]
Anything else we'll need?
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I'm ready to see what's inside this chocolate orange, between you and me.
Do you think it's fruit inside? Or maybe it's more chocolate--but colored like an orange.
Or, ooh, maybe it's orange jelly...
1/2
Ready then.
[With that she swings the knife down towards the waiting Terry's orange, her blade swift and true.]
[THUNK]
2/2
[A beat]
[then Eve lifts her hand. The chocolate orange stuck on her knife-transformed finger.]
Maybe I should have made it sharper.
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That's one solid orange. Wow. It really got stuck on there, huh.
[ he crosses his arms. tilting his head to one side, then the other... ]
Do you... think it's solid all the way through?
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[Like a soda can.]
[The 'knife' glows as Eve undoes the transformation, catching the now free orb with her other hand. Well, her efforts did made an incision in the shiny wrapper. She tries to gently lift the foil edge up and peer inside.]
Looks like just chocolate.
[A solid chocolate sphere.]
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[ its. Just pure chocolate. It's pure chocolate.
Vash's eyes get big. ]
...You know what.
That's fine.
The idea that it's pure chocolate suits me just fine.
--Look, the segments even look like the inside of an orange...!
Does that mean it'll taste like an orange too?
1/2
[...Admittedly, Kni skews the odds with his lack of sweet tooth.]
[Against what would be the better wisdom of smacking it first, Eve peels open the foil wrapping.]
[Inside is indeed a pure chocolate orange. Or rather, a sphere that looks remarkably like an orange. The outside has a bumpy texture akin to an orange peel. While clearly divided into even sections, it is holding together remarkably well.]
There's only one way to find out.
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[She offers the piece to Vash.]
Here.
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Does it matter?
Deliciousness awaits. ]
Don't mind if I do.
[ he'll pluck up the offered piece and pop it into his mouth--one bite.
...pause.
And his eyes brighten up. ]
--Ohmigod it DOES taste like an orange! But also. Chocolate.
Okay, this is great technology.
...Foodology.
I need to learn how to make this.
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[Eve watches Vash's taste test, idly wiggles another one of the slices loose. Not because she thinks it'll be bad (she's had chocolate before), but while she is curious, Vash is no doubt the more enthusiastic of the two of them. Might as well let him try first.]
[Her offering is rewarded almost immediately with a very chipper Vash. Eve smiles ever so faintly.]
I think the term is "gastronomy." Food science.
[She takes her own chocolate orange slice and nibbles at the edge.]
[Oh. He wasn't kidding.]
It really does taste like orange.