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WHO: Estelle, Joshua, and YOU?
WHERE: Outside the Bluobros house
WHEN: Julyish
WHAT: Building a better ~~mousetrap~~ chicken coop! In preparation for breeding more chickens, naturally.
WARNINGS: Probably not unless you bring them yourselves, u sinners.

[ If you hang around Bluo much, you’ve probably seen that one yard with the fence and the chickens (and chocobos) running around outside - but today, it’s bustling with activity of a different sort!

Joshua and Estelle are hard at work, surrounded by an assortment of lumber gathered from the more dilapidated buildings in town, and toiling away on a half-finished...something? It looks rather like it could be a chicken coop, if you’re familiar with what those look like, but it’s definitely got room for more than the five that are helpfully wandering around the yard and in and out of the way.

It’s coming along well! Mostly. ]

Estelle...you realize you’ve got that board upside-down, right?

....It has sides?

[She turns the board this way and that, frowning slightly as she examines it.

Things are definitely Going at least. At least this particular project doesn’t involve glue.]

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…

[ something occurs to him, and he’s not sure if anyone has asked this before, but if anyone would know, it would be joshua, wouldn’t it? he has this kind of thing figured out. ]

Do grey foods… have nutritional value?

[ he has to go out of the way to spell “nutritional” because he doesn’t know it, but the question is a valid one, he thinks. ]

I don't actually know.

[ That...actually is something he's curious about, but testing it is complicated somewhat by the circumstances. ]

But considering the taste, I don't think anyone would want to live on it if they can avoid it.

It’s not that bad.

[ and if joshua was ever wondering why their kitchen has persistently remain stocked with an assortment of grey things that someone was clearly eating, now he knows. ]

You're still eating it?

[ It...isn't that surprising, in retrospect, given the kinds of things Dex was already eating, but...there are so many better options. Please love yourself. ]

…

[ a nod. is he embarrassed? maybe just a little, to be called out on it. ]

[ oh god dex don't be embarrassed. ]

You know we can always make you something better, right...?

[ Joshua will cook for you. Love yourself? ]

[ dextera has not yet mastered the art of “asking for things,” so it’s not as easy as that! usually, if he wants something, he just hovers in the kitchen when someone else is there and hopes that they’ll share. it’s worked so far. ]

I need… to learn.

I'm no master chef, but the basics aren't too complicated. I can show you how to make a few things.

[ "It's not too complicated," Joshua says, as Estelle sets the kitchen on fire. ]

[ dextera nods, quietly grateful for joshua’s patience as always. it would be fun, wouldn’t it? ]

…please.

[ and then, a shy smile. ]

After we're done here, you can help me with dinner. Sound good?

[ FUN WILL BE HAD. ]

[ joshua, bless you. dextera nods. ]

Good luck.

[ with… everything going on here. the ladies need it, and with any luck, there will be even more ladies to use it in the future. ]