L [o/i] ve is a journey

The Girl with the Fox Mask (The First Day Part 5)| Well-Traveled I

She watched him nervously picking out something he wanted to eat. Well, actually, he looked like he was just staring at the menue. Was it overwhelming for hm? She picked a restaurant with tables in a more dimmed area. And also, judging by the smell and the number people in here ordered, the food was quite good. Maybe... Oh, Neri, you're an idiot! Maybe he can't read! The realization hit her like a thunderbolt. Ah, no! You brought this poor guy into a precarious situation. Why couldn't you just ask? And you cannot ask anymore, after leaving him hungry like that! Well, if that's the case, she was more than hungry to order the whole menue. It's been ages since she ate something that was actually prepared by a chef, and not just thrown on a stick, then half-way burnt over a fire. She was gonna inhale it all!

„I want to order the whole course for us, starting from here," she pointed on a random spot on the menue, „to here." She stopped, accidently, close to the dessert, including the first on the dessert card.

Damn! She didn't pay attention for that one! Neri shrugged, internally. Sure, desserts were almost always too much in the end, but, maybe, she could give him half of it or something, if he could fit in anything else after his course. The fox-mask wearing girl saw the confusion, and suprise, of the waitress: „Miss, are you sure?" she asked, because that was quite a lot of food. Neri, as stubborn as always, and growing way, way more hungry then she felt in the beginning, nodded: „Absolutly!"

The waitress nodded back and went into the kitchen. „I hope it's ok I ordered something for you? I can call her back, if there is anything you want." Neri said quiet. Lunaris looked at her, in confusion, maybe shock. She could not really tell. Well, she didn't do give me everything on the menue for a while now, so it was surprising, even to her. But then, her grumbling stomach reminded her why it was a good idea, actually.

It took a while, but when the first plates were arriving, there was not much space to set them on the table. Doesn't matter, she just grabbed the fork and knife and tucked into the food.

Neri was two plates in already, when she saw Lunaris' stunned face over the to the brim with food filled table. Yes, it probably was hard to understand to see all that food when you probably ate little to nothing not too long ago. She smiled, as an inviting gesture, when he looked with the same stunned look in his face to her. It felt like he was asking her for permission to eat, or, maybe, it meant ‚is this really all for me?' Impossible to tell.

Neri watched how Lunaris took a plate with potato dumplings, roasted chicken, red cabbage and a dark gravy. Maybe, she thought, I should have considered that the food wasn't to heavy on his stomach for the beginning, but then, I don't know what he would like to eat. She watched how he gracefully got a taste, saw his face lit up, and then, getting another bite.

She admired his restraint: in his shoes, she would have wolved it down with no concern for manners or anything, not even getting the taste of it. But the longer she watched him, the more it fall apart with every bite he took, as the mind of a starving person, suddenly faced with an enourmous amount of food, took over. His first plate was gone, before he realized it. Without even thinking twice, he grabbed the next plate, steak, fried potatos, some vegetables she never saw or tasted before, and watched him eat it. It was still deliberatly, not just throwing it into his stomach, but the way he did it told a story of a longer period he had gone without a proper meal.

The plates piled up to an impressive tower for both of them, before he finally, between two bites, came back to reality, pushing the last bite of the plate of his portion into his mouth.

Nerivie had eaten her side of the menue, and leaned back, trying to hide that huge food filled belly of hers. She happily, but in slow motion, ate the dessert that was left on the table. Maaan, if she had to eat just more than that, just a little bit, she would explode. Dear goddess, it's been a while since I was served such good food.