SHI QING XUAN

[aubins]

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[shiftingwinds]

...the word does sound rather nonsensical, doesn't it.

[aubins]

I wonder where it came from.

[ i say, opening google to find out where the word kettle came from. ]

[shiftingwinds]

Maybe we can ask one of the... "modern" people and find out?

[aubins]

Do you think they'll know the etymology of the word kettle?

[shiftingwinds]

Maybe not, but there's a higher chance that they'll know it than there is that we'll just guess it right!

[aubins]

... I'll have to ask and see what they come back with. I'm curious now.

[shiftingwinds]

Me too! If they tell you, please tell me what you learn!

[aubins]

I will. Hopefully it'll be something appropriately exciting.

[ ... ]

Did you figure out what you're getting from the machine? Now you can possibly see it.

[shiftingwinds]

Hmmm...

[she looks at the machine again]

...aha! [she taps on it - out comes a cup of kudzu flower tea.] There's a saying where I come from. One thousand glasses, but no drunkenness with gegen hua!

[aubins]

Is that what that's called?

[ .... yuri will order a milkshake and just sit back as it arrives. ]

But you're fixing a hangover, not the drunkness.

[shiftingwinds]

Well, it might help a little even after the fact...

[she can't go back in time and make herself less drunk! but she eyes the milkshake he orders curiously.]

What's that?

[aubins]

Better trying it than not.

[ he is, notably, not drinking this drink yet. ]

It's called a milkshake. I knew this thing did different flavours so... I thought I'd try another.

[shiftingwinds]

Oh, what flavor did you get this time?

[aubins]

Vanilla! They have chocolate as well, and... I guess there must be others? But these are the two I know about.

[ he is still not drinking it. ]

[shiftingwinds]

Hmm...

[well, she's curious, so

she downs her tea in one gulp and then orders a milkshake]

[aubins]

[ that was impressive tea drinking content.


yuri reaches out to tap the side of his milkshake, but still doesn't pick it up. ]

It's cold though. Careful.

[shiftingwinds]

[she sips at it (slowly, thanks for the warning, she has avoided brainfreeze).]

It's sweet!

[aubins]

[ good, no one should suffer as he did. finally, yuri will take a sip of his own drink. ]

Mm.

I think it's just.... a lot of ice cream and milk, was it?

[shiftingwinds]

It tastes like it...

I'll have to figure out how to make this when I return home, too. Aaaah, there are so many interesting things from other worlds...

[aubins]

I expect I could make this back home as well, it'd just be figuring out ratios and any less obvious ingredients. I think.

[shiftingwinds]

...we can practice it while we're here, if we can find the ingredients on their own. Then we can taste one of these to compare it so we know if we got it right!

[aubins]

A little recipe making before we have to leave. I like that idea.

[shiftingwinds]

They did tell us to do whatever we want, after all!

[aubins]

I wonder what indulgence recipe recreation comes under.

[shiftingwinds]

Hmm... gluttony is a given, but you might be able to count it for wrath if you're angry that you don't already know how to make it!