As I stand in my cozy kitchen, the aroma of simmering garlic and olive oil fills the air.
I begin by boiling a pot of salted water, watching as the bubbles dance to the surface. With a gentle toss, I add the al dente pasta, its strands twirling like ribbons in a playful ballet.
While the pasta cooks, I sauté a medley of fresh vegetables—crisp bell peppers, tender zucchini, and earthy mushrooms—each sizzle a symphony of flavors.
A sprinkle of herbs and a dash of red pepper flakes add a touch of warmth and spice.
Once the pasta is perfectly cooked, I drain it, reserving a cup of the starchy water. I combine the pasta with the vegetables in a large pan, tossing them together with a generous pour of creamy sauce.
The reserved water helps to create a silky texture that clings lovingly to each piece. With a final flourish of grated Parmesan cheese and a handful of chopped parsley, I prepared 2 plates of my masterpiece.
Before eating food through mouth, they eat food through eyes first. The presentation is important.
I serve the plates on the table for me and my guest. A magical red wine for me and lavender lemonade for the bald one.
Yao picked up fork , stab the pasta gently with it and twirl it to gather a good portion.
She can smell the heavenly food and when brought it inside her mouth. Her eyes widened in pure delight.
"I must say, this is most delicious food i ever had in all my life "
Yao complemented by food while I also enjoyed my pasta with red wine.
"Glad you like it, so what are you here for? I don't think you meet someone if it wasn't for a reason."
"Do you really think I don't have any social contact outside of my duties?"
Yes. Its always duty for her. I don't think she really spends any me time except having honey tea.
"Well, not after becoming spirit leopard."
I teased her with smirk on my face.
"Please, do not talk about this in front of others. Its in the past and let it buried there." Yao replied immediately as she tried to stop me talking about it in front of others.
Who is present here except us? It's my new bitch.
"Oh don't worry about timmy."
I don't know which one of the Odin's bird he is so i just named him timmy.
"Timmy? That's the name you have given him. He has been looking at my pasta for a while."
I turned my head and saw timmy chained up looking at us with puppy, no, with raven eyes and his beak salivating.
"Oh don't worry, he has a food."
Yao looked beside him to see a dog bowl with 'timmy' written on it. Filled with dog food.
"I also taught him some tricks. Timmy do a back flip."
Instead this Bastard just spread his wings, shook his head and kaw'd at me.
"Talking back to me, huh!!! Wanna get punished again!!" From my dimensional storage, i pulled out a random stick i found in the garden which i had also enhanced it with mana and made it strong enough to break steel pipe.
Timmy immediately did a backflip and lands on his feet.
"Timmy do a front flip"
Timmy did a spectacular front flip.
"Timmy do moon walk"
Timmy put one wing on his head, the other on his lower stomach and started walking backing while giving the illusion of walking forward.
A spectacular performance and he end it with standing on it feet end and bending forward bit with head drop down and a 'KAW!' in high note like a certain hee-hee child toucher.
"I have lots of extra pasta, maybe I'll give it to someone who can do hand stand or perhaps wing stand till i count down to 3 ."
Timmy put his wing on the floor and did a wind stand.
"Minus twoooooo.....minus oooneeeeee..... Zeeerooooo.....oneee.... twwwooooooo...twoooo point fiveeeee...aaannnnndddddd..... Three"
Timmy was fighting for his fucking life by standing on the tip of wings. You know hard it is considered in bird culture and Timmy did it for a whole proper 3 seconds.
Timmy just ploped down with his chest heaving up and down and his tongue out of his beak.
I went to kitchen and took a portion of pasta. Walked to Timmy who was already on his feet, jumping like exciting dog. As i was putting pasta in the dog bowl, he was excitedly jumping around the bowl.
I was done and he was waiting for my command as his beak cant stop biting the air and salivating.
"Go"
On my command he just straight dived head first into the pasta and started devouring it.
I sat back on table and saw Yao reaction.
She had just completely blank face. Hell even her mind went completely blank as it can't seem to process what the hell just happened. It was just so out of place that it cant just seem to comprehend the events happening.
Her mind just completely ignored the whole thing and she went back to eating like she was put on auto mode.
We eat our pasta in complete silence. After we were done, i revealed her reason for here.
"You are here because of what you saw in your time stone trip."