Bloody Feet

The crew was merry; they'd been promised triple rations. Some idiot or other had told their Cook I had class levels; I actually learned quite a bit about making old ingredients taste new. There was even an ability Refresh Ingredient, which was always purchased as an Inherent. It was cheap, and given the number of ingredients that passed through any cook's hand in a day...

In any case, I couldn't afford that, but I was no stranger to washing and chopping vegetables, to grinding herbs into powder, to making of broths and doughs and mixes of herbs, so I got to do little else for three hours.

The captain was happy, walking around in linen foot wraps spotted with red and brown. Heck, even the monkey caught the mood, and it wasn't even Aware. <1>

"Rhishi," Kismet said, on first tasting it, "tell us you learned to make food like this!"

I waved a hand in the Daurian fashion. "Abilities far beyond my level to learn, but I have them flagged."