You nod. "Yeah, that sounds fine to me." You send a glance over your shoulder, where Una is slouching onto your back. "You want to come?" You feel her sleepily shift against your back and press a nod to your spine. You shift a little to be more comfortable before looking to Morgan, who is looking much more awake this morning than she was yesterday. You wonder how long she's been up.
You all just sit there for a minute, still waking up before you eventually see Morgan shake her head and make her way to her feet. She tilts her head back to look at you. "I'm gonna go make breakfast, want some?" You think for a moment, glancing over to your still empty kitchen before nodding. "Right then, Egg's and Toast good for you?" At that you feel Una look up.
"Soldiers?" Her voice is sleepy, but you can make out what she said.
You see Morgan stop for a second as she thinks before nodding. "Yeah, sure." You see her subtly waving you over and you make your way to your feet, making sure that Una doesn't fall off of the sofa where you stand up. When you get close, she leans in next to you and whispers. "Do you know what 'Soldiers' are? 'Cause I don't have a clue." You stare at her a little incredulously at that, Eggs and Soldiers was an English recipe that you remembered from when you were a kid.
Morgan flushes slightly under your blunt stare, but she waits for you to give her a slow now before she releases a relieved sigh. "Yes, it's where you cut the bread into strips and rather than have it whole. You're supposed to dip the toast in the runny egg." You keep staring at her. "How do you not know this. I've been living in America for the last ten years and I still remember this." Admittedly, you still saw your Father make it occasionally, but you wanted to press the point.
Her flush turns into a small blush as she moves back towards her room. "I don't actually spend all that much time in England and no-one really cooks for me." She opens the intervening door. "Thanks though, Una kind of caught me off guard and I said yes without knowing what it was." She enters the kitchen and you stop at the entrance, not sure if you should continue through to help or not. She spots you standing there after filling a pot with water and waves you in. "You can help if you want, shouldn't be long anyway." You enter the kitchen and realise that you don't know where she keeps anything, thankfully you are used to this, living out of other peoples houses as you did. You guess rightly where she keeps the egg holders and plates, setting them out while she sets the water to boil on the stove.
You reach out and grab a bread-shaped packet, which indeed is bread. You quickly memorise the name of this bread, seeing as you might need to buy some yourself and you put four slices on to toast. That done, you turn around to find Morgan just passing the butter in your direction and pointing you to a draw. "Cutlery is in there." You take the container of butter and flick out the drawer, grabbing a blunt knife and putting them both by the plates. You take the opportunity to grab a sharper knife off of a magnetic rack on the wall, to cut the toasted bread.
You take the bread out when it's done and wait for the eggs, buttering the bread and cutting it into strips as you go. You take the eggs out after five minutes of boiling, faster than Morgan expected apparently, she'd probably forgotten that they needed to be soft rather than hard. Still, you crack the tops open and slot them into the holder, then grab two plates apiece. You carry them to the table in Morgan's room where Una is waiting. You put the plates down on a pair of tablemates, Una probably put them out, you thank her as you quickly walk back to the kitchen, passing Morgan wither her plate on the way. "Ketchup?"
She points over her shoulder as she passes, fingering a cupboard closest to the fridge, where you grab a recently opened bottle and return to the table. You pass it over to Una and then use it when she passes it back. Ketchup applied yourself, you dip your bread in the liquid yolk and then the ketchup, and take a bite. Mmmm, it's good. You hear Una let out an appreciative hum herself as the three of you work towards demolishing your food. When you run out of bread, you take your spoon to the problem and finish it.
Food finished, you lean back in your seat and sigh, feeling much better than you had earlier. Morgan stands and collects your plates and you follow her. She washes, you dry and Una puts them away. Well, you put away the ones she cant reach, like the plates in the cupboard. Still, food finished for the morning you remember the Affinity test from yesterday and remind Morgan.
"Oh yeah, that, give me a second." She moved into her bedroom and starts up a computer there. It's pretty fancy looking and only takes two minutes to turn on, must be pretty expensive. She clicks at it for a minute before looking back to you, email visible on screen. "Yeah, your results came through, took a while apparently." You hear her mumbling quietly as she reads through and then let out a long hmmm when she finishes. "Says here that your affinities are... Beginning and End." You see her blink as she stares at the screen for a minute longer, then stop, looking back at you over her shoulder at you.
"We've never seen these Affinities before, though that's nothing new. A lot of Magical Girls have unique or rare Affinities. But Beginning and End? That's a paired set." She smile. "I bet that the guys down at R&D are going to be poking over this for months." You don't really have anything to say in response to that.
"Is that bad?"
She shakes her head as she stands, turning off her computer as she goes. "No, its nothing bad. Your Affinities are just... concepts that you are most closely aligned too, I guess. I don't really known that much about them."
You mull that over as you set off towards Karen's room. You make pretty good time and Morgan cheerfully greets three people that you pass in the corridor, though they only give you mild nods they aren't rude and they keep their distance. You are still thinking about it, but don't really come up with anything, so you put it out of your mind. You remember an idea from last night and turn to Morgan. "Do you mind if I stop by with Samantha really quick? I just need to ask her to do something."
Morgan things about it for a second, glancing up, before nodding. "Yeah, so long as we're quick we can make it in time." You were on some sort of schedule? Regardless, you walk in the direction you remember, making it to the 'Paperwork Divisions' office without losing your way. You make your way over towards Samantha's desk, somehow not surprised to find her there this early in the morning, it was only Eight. Still, she looks up when you approach, looking as awake as normal. "Good morning. Do you think that you could create and deliver to me a summary of world-wide events magic and mundane every week?"
Samantha blinks in surprise slightly, but nods at your request and starts typing at something after a few clicks. "Yes, that is perfectly possible. Please bear in mind that you are only cleared for semi-classified information at the moment, so the reports might be lacking in detail slightly." It's your turn to blink at her statement. "I will compile it starting today and deliver it to you. Do you want it Sunday or Monday?"
"Monday please, have it ready for me in the morning?" Samantha nods as she continues typing at a furious pace and after a moment of silence you take that as your cue to leave. You quickly walk back out and Morgan takes the lead back towards Karen's room, a three minute trip from where you are. Morgan leads you through Karen's door, smiling cheerfully and a greeting on her lips. "Kaaaareeeeennn, I'm here to visit!" She is practically skipping.
You hear someone moving things in the kitchen for a second before Karen calls back. "Oh hello Morgan, stopping by for a Cuppa?" Morgan cheerfully nods, before remembering that she can't be seen and calls back with a yes.
"Cerys is here too." She turns to you. "How do you take your tea?"
Before you can react, you see Karen come into the main room, wearing a fluffy dressing gown and smiling. "No, need. I remember." She has four mugs in hand and places them on the table. "Morgan, Cerys, Una." She points to mugs in order and you take yours with a thanks. How the hell does she make these so quickly? Must be using magic. That seemed a very... Karen thing to do to be honest. You settle down into your seats and take a sip of your tea, excellent, I need to ask her about what type of Tea she uses.
You and Una sit there, sipping your tea a little awkwardly as Morgan cheerfully chats with Karen about seemingly everything. She doesn't really say anything important, but at some point she manages to coax Una into the conversation, after which point she annexes it and drowns the two of them in questions about magic. You recognise a couple of them from some of the shows you watched together or Manga you've read. Honestly... You fail to resist the urge to sigh, but a smile still forces it's way onto your face.
You listen in, trying to catch anything important, but it was mostly just Una asking a question and getting a yes or no. She was blitzing away too fast for them to explain any reasons. You were happy enough to sit here quietly and enjoy your Tea. Una was practically glowing as she digs further and further into her backlog. Twenty minutes later, she's not let up in the slightest, question after question. Morgan is looking distinctly frazzled as she tries to keep up, but Karen just looks delighted, answering every question that Morgan passes up with a smile on her face. She must have been thinking these up for weeks.
An hour later, you were on your second cup of Tea and you were silently delighting in the Chaos. You take a tiny sip as Una continues at the same pace she had when she'd started, though you can hear her voice is slightly husky from where she's spoken so much. Morgan bowed out of the conversation a little while earlier and navigated her way over to your side as sneakily as she could, which was pretty good in all honesty. Karen was now bearing the full brunt of the Hurricane Una.
She was doing an admirable job honestly, but you knew she was having difficulty because her Tea was getting cold in her cup and she had curled up to rest in her seat more comfortably than sitting. Morgan whispers to you quietly as she takes a sip. "Wow, she can really get going can't she?" She lets out a quiet chuckle. "Never seen a girl that can go like that." She actually seems a little awed as she speaks, it's not that unusual right? "Anyway, I was thinking. Your place is a little empty right now and your kitchen is still barren right?" You hear her grumble about them not even buying cutlery. "You want to go shopping later? We can stop by Sammy on the way and grab your card."
That doesn't sound like too bad of an idea, you don't have anything else to do. Plus, the idea of actually owning things made you kind of tingly, in a good way. You take a quick glance at the clock on the wall, 09:47.
Midday...
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