[He gives a slight shake of the head. He would like to believe the time for wallowing in painful memories is finally starting to pass.]
It's as good a time as any to honor those memories, is it not? [He has spoken of Klint plenty but has not really touched on the more damning things. It, unfortunately, had come up plenty during that strange bout of memory sharing. But by the time he saw Dominique after all of that it felt much too raw to also go over it with her.] Plum pudding it is.
[He begins setting out the bowls. There's already brandy marinated fruit just for this dish which is good otherwise they wouldn't be doing very much baking.]
Why was your brother raised separately from you?
[He can but suspect that the male needed to be raised to run the home and it was best to do it away from his sister. That seems like the sort of thing that would be done in their time but perhaps Vampires have a different way of doing things. Even if it hadn't been just him and Klint he's not sure there would have ever been any reason for separation. Other than the usual University and work...
He moves the cookbook between them so they can both peer at it as needed. Seems like the dry ingredients need to be mixed first. Flour, spices, breadcrumbs, almonds, sugar... so on.]
He was the one you got along well with, yes?
[The rest have been unkind to her, if he recalls. The reason she doesn't see herself as the jewel she is.]
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It's as good a time as any to honor those memories, is it not? [He has spoken of Klint plenty but has not really touched on the more damning things. It, unfortunately, had come up plenty during that strange bout of memory sharing. But by the time he saw Dominique after all of that it felt much too raw to also go over it with her.] Plum pudding it is.
[He begins setting out the bowls. There's already brandy marinated fruit just for this dish which is good otherwise they wouldn't be doing very much baking.]
Why was your brother raised separately from you?
[He can but suspect that the male needed to be raised to run the home and it was best to do it away from his sister. That seems like the sort of thing that would be done in their time but perhaps Vampires have a different way of doing things. Even if it hadn't been just him and Klint he's not sure there would have ever been any reason for separation. Other than the usual University and work...
He moves the cookbook between them so they can both peer at it as needed. Seems like the dry ingredients need to be mixed first. Flour, spices, breadcrumbs, almonds, sugar... so on.]
He was the one you got along well with, yes?
[The rest have been unkind to her, if he recalls. The reason she doesn't see herself as the jewel she is.]