Third Floor Common Room [evening]

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Kaylee honestly didn't understand this whole Thanksgiving thing beyond 'there'll be lots of food.' It was fairly archaic in her time, after all, and it wasn't like she'd been formally educated in history.

She was trying to do some research, as best she could, but rather than do something intelligent like either asking someone who might know something more about the holiday or, you know, cracking a book, she'd found something on television.

She didn't know how something could be semi-homemade, and why that woman was so...terrifying, but for some reason, she couldn't look away. Well, mostly. She could look down at her lap to check that Popples wasn't getting ready to run away or anything, since she'd figured this was as good an opportunity as any to get her new pet out to visit places other than her room.

[I've been meaning to do this post for like three days, dude. open!]

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"Scary lady," Kaylee said simply, nodding to the TV. "She's cookin' but she's bein' real scary about it.

She tried not to wince when Popples quilled her, because, you know, wolf.

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Firekeeper snorted. "Why?" Because Kaylee would know. Or something.

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"Why's she cookin'? 'Cause of Thanksgivinging," she said.

She had yet to say that word right.

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Well, she'd meant why is she being scary about it. But that answer worked too. "Thanks for what?"

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"I ain't really sure. It's got somethin' to do with how this country got started," she admitted.

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"We is not having such, where I am from," Firekeeper said. Well, wolves didn't. And as far as she knew, the humans didn't either. Though it was entirely possible they did and she just didn't pay attention.

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"Me neither. It's kinda ancient history for us," Kaylee told her. "So I'm tryin' t'learn, like."

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"Learning is good," Firekeeper nodded approvingly. And then elbowed Blind Seer sharply before he could make a crack about how she still hadn't learned to read. "This country was started with feasting?" she asked curiously, looking at the television and the various kinds of things being prepared. "On sugar?" That didn't make much sense.

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"An' pie. An turkeys?" she guessed.

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"They conquer land from turkeys?" Firekeeper pondered out loud.

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"No, but they ate turkeys," she replied thoughtfully. "An' they do still."

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"Is not bad meat," Firekeeper admitted. "Deer is tasting better, though."

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"I ain't never had deer," Kaylee said, surprised. "I didn't know people ate those."

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"Where I am from, humans, wolves, both is eating deer." The difference of course being the whole 'cooking' step that wolves pretty much ignored.

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"We eat cows an' chickens an' pigs," she told her. "When we can get 'em. Mostly we just eat protein an' grains."

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Firekeeper frowned. "Grains is important for humans," she said. "But meat is also. You should have," she said sternly.

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"We're real poor," she explained. "Meat's expensive. I eat more here!"

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"I not buy meat, just hunt," Firekeeper said. Because that was totally possible in space, of course. "Is good that you eat here, though," she added approvingly.

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"My boyfriend cooks so I gotta eat," she assured her. "I ain't never hunted. We prolly could at home, 'cause we're terraformed, but mostly we just got domesticated animals."

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"Them is stupid beasts, mostly," Firekeeper snorted. "Horses is smart enough, but not for eating." Well, unless you were being held prisoner on a boat and it was the only thing offered. But that was totally different.

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"Nooo, I couldn't never eat a horse," Kaylee said fretfully. "But we got cows an' all that! I try not t'play with them or nothin' so I don't feel sad later."

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"Is probably wise," Firekeeper said diplomatically, even though she had no such problems. Food was food.