Third floor common room [Too karking early for a Sunday, Cade]

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Cade had gone for a nice long run around the island and was now working industriously in the common room kitchen making green juice (heavy on the kale, naturally) and nice hot bowls of gruel oatmeal.

Breakfast was the most important meal of the day, you know!

Anyone hungry?

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Will tended to be up pretty early each day so he could go on runs of his own so he wasn't entirely surprised to find someone else around. If he'd known Cade, he would have been surprised but he didn't.

"Morning," he greeted with a nod. "Getting an early start to the day?"

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Cade nodded. "It's nice to get things done when most people aren't awake yet, you know?" He nodded toward the blender. "Want some juice? Promise it tastes better than it looks."

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Will eyed the juice and hesitated. "It's very...green. Is it for St. Patrick's Day or something?"

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"What?" Cade frowned. "Oh, that holiday where everything's green? Nah, I drink this all the time. Full of vitamins."

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"What's in it?" Will asked, stepping closer to take a look at the drink.

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"Kale, ginger, celery, cucumber and apples," Cade said. "And some parsley."

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Will pulled a face because...that did not sound like an inviting combination at all.

"And that tastes...good?" Because yeah.

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"Mostly like apple," Cade said. "Spicy apples."

Even though it totally sounded like what would happen when Karla cooked.

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"Where'd you even learn to make something like this?" Will had to ask. He was comforted with the fact that it apparently didn't taste horrible though. "Experimentation?"

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"Good morning," Celia greeted Will, a bit hesitantly. Their last encounter had been fairly disastrous, and even if she was on more solid ground now, she worried she'd say something to make him think she was crazy again. "Are you going to try the green juice?"

She was still debating it, personally.

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"I don't think so," he said, scratching his cheek. "It's a little too green for me and I know what he put in it."

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"Iron," Celia said ponderously. "I don't know. I feel as though drinking metal is a bad way to start off the morning. Maybe that's just me."

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"Wait, what?" Will asked, blinking a few times. "He put metal in it? He didn't tell me that."

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"Iron," Celia supplied. "But then he told me I need it to run. I mean, maybe some metal is necessary but there's no need to become excessive."

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"Oh! Oh, that kind of iron," Will said, finally getting it. "I don't think he meant the actual metal. Iron's a vitamin. A nutrient that's in certain foods that's healthy for you. So, not really metal."

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"I still don't see why I need more if I'm perfectly healthy now," she pointed out. "Why add more of these nutrients if we're fine as we are? No one here appears to be sick, at least."

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"It can be a preventative thing," Will explained with a shrug. "A way to make sure you don't get sick. And some people have iron deficiencies which means they need things like his weird looking shake just to stay healthy."

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"What is that?" Celia asked, wandering out to the common room and frowning at the...concoction. "Oh, no. Don't tell me that suddenly all juice is green, now."

That would be too much, in terms of shifting realities.

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"No, I made it on purpose," Cade said. "It's good, promise!"

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"Why is it green?" Celia asked warily. That seemed like a good place to start.

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"Because there's a lot of kale in it," Cade said, "but you can't really taste it."

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"Then why did you put it in?" Celia asked, perplexed. What was the point of adding an ingredient that was tasteless?

Celia had much to learn about juicing. She hadn't even been introduced to Pinterest yet.

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Well, Cade wasn't going to be responsible for the inevitable Mason jar hoarding that would happen then.

"Because it's good for you," Cade said. "It's full of iron or something."

That's why it tasted a little like dirt!

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"Iron?" Celia repeated, alarmed. "Like...the metal? Should you be drinking that?"

Celia also had much to learn about nutrition.

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She was going to end up drowning in men's fitness magazines instead of Mason jars. Run away, Celia!

He laughed. "Nah, it's not like chewing on the side of an X-Wing or anything. This is something your body needs to run."