Through the Great Filter | Completed ✔

The Fanciest Meal

As we enter the restaurant, numerous floating metal plates like the ones I saw in her house welcomes us. All are lined up in piles at the sides, leaving out an isle in the middle as a way when you enter from the door. Yes, there are a lot of plates that defy the law of gravity but I cannot see anything where we can sit to eat and the plates are floating just in the right height where you can use them while standing. So I have a feeling that Szx..u..ve..eks? Did I say it right? Anyways, going back, I have a feeling that they take their meals in a standing position.

Do you eat while standing?

Yes. We do it that way.

Uhmm, I just noticed that you do not have any stuff to sit down on your house. The vehicle we rode a while ago also has no feature that allows its passengers to sit. Do Szxuve..eks do not sit at all?

No. We don't.

But that will make you tired.

Our biological structure, our DNA, and our culture and tradition says otherwise.

As we reach the end of the isle. This time, line of floating covered trays are in front of us. She press a button in the middle of the trays and all trays reveal what's inside of them. Different varieties of food is currently offered. But despite of the wide variety, everything looks unique and not palatable. Their food ranges from greenish corn like veggies to bright indigo tinted meat with a very foul odor. I guess I cannot eat any of these.

I think ... I am ... full. -She then looks at me in a very bad way as if saying "What the hell do you want, choosy shit?"

I know you're not. Stop pretending that you are not hungry. Instead, tell me that you do not like any of these foods. But, I cannot let you go hungry. I am telling you that you will regret not eating right now. We will walk a very long way later and having an empty stomache is a very bad decision.

She goes to a corner and submerged her hands in one of the leftern most tray. It has something that I thought is a cream soup. But why would she dip her hands into a soup?

What are you doing?

I am washing my hands.

So, that is a ... soap?

Yes. Something like that.

After she wash her hands, she press another button just beside the tray of soap and speak in a language I can't understand. Suddenly, two of the floating plates aligned at our back came near us.

Go and choose your food.

She then started to choose from the floating  trays and she pick her food by hands. Yeah, that looks gross but I just followed her. Maybe they do not have cutleries here. After we picked our foods, she press the same button and both of the plates return to their initial position. She goes to the area of the plate and started to eat while standing and while using her bare hands. She had red dotted veggies and gray chunks of egg like thing in her plate with some side dishes of blue meat while I end up eating a yellow celery like structure alone and its taste is not so bad but also not so good. After we eat, she press another button, this time from the rightern most part of the trays and speak in an indistinct language again. Suddenly the ceiling of the restaurant opened and our plates were pulled up to the top where a machine that functions like a dishwasher cleans our metal floating plates. I was just like Wow while watching all the crazy stuffs happening. After the out of this world meal, we were about to go out when I stopped her.

Wait. Do you have any water? I need to drink right now. That yellow thing stucks to my teeth and also I am starting to get thirsty. -She look at me with a surprise and astonish face

You Earthlings ... ... ... drink water?

What question is that? Yes of course. Don't you?

No.

Huh? You do not need water? Woah.

No. Not like that. I mean we do need it. But we have an organ inside of our body that produces the water we need from day to day so we do not have to drink it. Besides, our outer skin is very allergic to water so we handle water very carefully.

I was left in awe after what she said. She apologizes for she cannot give me water. I simply accepted it for I cannot do anything. But the reality is I am a bit thirsty. We got out of the restaurant and ride the floating glass disk once again. She said we better go faster for we must not waste any time.

Are we going back to your room?

Nope.

Then where are we heading to?

To a place where symbols and alphabets come into life.

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Edit: Hey there, lovely Earthling! What is your favorite restaurant?  Does it have floating plates too? Why is it your favorite one?
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