[ usually cassian does the shopping because jyn is hopeless but he'd gotten stuck on the job and her own job is relentlessly predictable so it fell to her to gather the supplies for dinner. she'd thought briefly of letting them all starve, but larry had seemed excited about the meal. ]
Yes.
[ spoken to the ground as she rifles around in her messenger bag for the empty spice containers she is here to refill. she looks up again (and up, since he's much taller than her up close), and while her expression doesn't soften, the lack of annoyed confusion now that he's answered her question makes her look less like a stroppy cow. ]
I'm straightforward.
[ she is a ship about to hit hyperspeed, a blunt force, only gentle with children and her family and even the latter is iffy. straightforward is an understatement, but jyn generally struggles with the niceties, she's never really had to be good at speaking to other people. ]
[ Yes, she has a point - even if her general everything could probably be a little less hostile, less like she's expecting him to suddenly pull a gun on her or something.
Although, in all fairness, he probably doesn't look particularly approachable or trustworthy either in his worn, awkwardly sized clothing.
[ because it's a flawless argument. she starts scooping the correct spice into the jar, hoping it is the right spice and thinking idly that if cassian sent her to refill the spice jars specifically so she could speak to someone and not be an unsocial raccoon, she will deck him.
she won't, he is too pretty and she is too shallow. ]
Thanks.
[ for the help, not for not arguing with her but it certainly sounds like she is grateful he has decided not to tell her why she would catch more flies with honey.
disgusting earthen phrase, why would she want to catch flies? ]
[ He is equally going to assume it's for the spice and not for agreeing with her.
She seems set in her ways about that, and that's fair. If anything, she reminds him a little of Andy, if Andy were several hundreds of years younger, and smaller, and even Andy can pretend to be more amiable when she wants to.
Perhaps this young woman can too, but she certainly doesn't care to. ]
[ what a ridiculous question, one that even gets her a side eye from a passing stranger. she can brush it off when the need presents itself, she's innocent looking enough and she's a good liar when the opportunity arises.
[ So, obviously this whole world is nuts and probably belongs in a cyberpunk novel he's never read, but at least he can still (mostly) recognize the earth spices in the market. ]
Are you asking because you are also from there, or because I seem particularly earth-like?
[ she shrugs awkwardly, that's about the sum of her thought process: he recognized the spice she needed. but she supposes "particularly earth-like" fits the bill as well. maybe he has an earthen quality to him.
no, no he looks like he also thinks this planet being called dirt is stupid. ]
I'm not from this galaxy and I don't do the cooking so I've not had the chance to learn every spice there is yet.
[ Humanity, for all its accomplishments and victories, certainly drew the short end of the stick for calling Earth what they did when there were plenty of other greater, better names. For sure.
Not that he thinks about this at all, though. It's never had to be a thing to think about until ... well, now. ]
Ah. Well, as a galaxy native, my knowledge in spices is admittedly still limited. My — [ There's the slightest hitch of hesitation there, obvious enough anyway. ] — brother is the one who cooks. [ He has also lived for over 900 years, so. ] He would probably be able to identify every spice here, unless something new has been discovered since 2020.
[ jyn makes that same pause when she talks about bodhi, which is a rare thing because fuck if she is going to admit to most people that she'd had a feeling once before in her life, so she assumes the brother in question is dead, despite the present tense. ]
Probably not the way they've treated the environment here.
[ which is a little funny to say in new amsterdam, all things considered, overflowing with greenery. but also they're in a city enclosed by an enormous wall so that humanity doesn't destroy what is left of the fertile land outside the city so also it's not funny.
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Yes.
[ spoken to the ground as she rifles around in her messenger bag for the empty spice containers she is here to refill. she looks up again (and up, since he's much taller than her up close), and while her expression doesn't soften, the lack of annoyed confusion now that he's answered her question makes her look less like a stroppy cow. ]
I'm straightforward.
[ she is a ship about to hit hyperspeed, a blunt force, only gentle with children and her family and even the latter is iffy. straightforward is an understatement, but jyn generally struggles with the niceties, she's never really had to be good at speaking to other people. ]
Would you prefer I be insincerely polite?
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[ Yes, she has a point - even if her general everything could probably be a little less hostile, less like she's expecting him to suddenly pull a gun on her or something.
Although, in all fairness, he probably doesn't look particularly approachable or trustworthy either in his worn, awkwardly sized clothing.
Jesus, he really needs a job and new clothes. ]
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she won't, he is too pretty and she is too shallow. ]
Thanks.
[ for the help, not for not arguing with her but it certainly sounds like she is grateful he has decided not to tell her why she would catch more flies with honey.
disgusting earthen phrase, why would she want to catch flies? ]
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[ He is equally going to assume it's for the spice and not for agreeing with her.
She seems set in her ways about that, and that's fair. If anything, she reminds him a little of Andy, if Andy were several hundreds of years younger, and smaller, and even Andy can pretend to be more amiable when she wants to.
Perhaps this young woman can too, but she certainly doesn't care to. ]
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[ what a ridiculous question, one that even gets her a side eye from a passing stranger. she can brush it off when the need presents itself, she's innocent looking enough and she's a good liar when the opportunity arises.
but earth people know earth spices! ]
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Oui. From a time about four-hundred years ago.
[ So, obviously this whole world is nuts and probably belongs in a cyberpunk novel he's never read, but at least he can still (mostly) recognize the earth spices in the market. ]
Are you asking because you are also from there, or because I seem particularly earth-like?
[ ... whatever that means. ]
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[ she shrugs awkwardly, that's about the sum of her thought process: he recognized the spice she needed. but she supposes "particularly earth-like" fits the bill as well. maybe he has an earthen quality to him.
no, no he looks like he also thinks this planet being called dirt is stupid. ]
I'm not from this galaxy and I don't do the cooking so I've not had the chance to learn every spice there is yet.
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Not that he thinks about this at all, though. It's never had to be a thing to think about until ... well, now. ]
Ah. Well, as a galaxy native, my knowledge in spices is admittedly still limited. My — [ There's the slightest hitch of hesitation there, obvious enough anyway. ] — brother is the one who cooks. [ He has also lived for over 900 years, so. ] He would probably be able to identify every spice here, unless something new has been discovered since 2020.
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Probably not the way they've treated the environment here.
[ which is a little funny to say in new amsterdam, all things considered, overflowing with greenery. but also they're in a city enclosed by an enormous wall so that humanity doesn't destroy what is left of the fertile land outside the city so also it's not funny.
hey! hey, earth! what the fuck. ]
More likely some have gone extinct.