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[gentilitea]

Who: Add & Jakob
Where: The Near Shore
When: May 26
What: Prayer #17; or, what happens when your shinki is basically dishware
Warnings: Add

Somehow this isn’t all that different from when he’d been helping with the relief operations a week or so before. Sure, they’re operating on a much smaller scale, as they’re catering only to the slums at the edge of a park, but Jakob is already at his wit’s end, and it’s mostly because Add had insisted on tagging along, again.

Okay, so as far as masters go at least Jakob can count on him to remain impeccably tidy, but for everything else? He’s expecting some sort of huge calamity to occur any minute now, even as he stirs up a huge batch of curry simmering in a large pot over a stove. They’ve reappropriated one of the picnic tables for their makeshift kitchen, and everything’s going well and good so far and they even get to spend some time in the great outdoors, but that only means that something’s bound to go wrong when he least expects it and it’s all because Add refuses to sit quietly inside his temple and let Jakob do all the work. It’s not as if he minds doing all the work, anyway. That’s what shinki are for.

But Add appears to really enjoy supervising for some reason and the heat from the curry is making him much more hotheaded than usual and he’s just about ready to snap his ladle in two trying to keep his agitation in check—but it’s really no use, because Add is stubborn and Jakob has long since given up trying to argue with him.

Instead, he decides to go on a different track altogether: “I don’t see why you even have to involve yourself with charity in the first place. Feeding the homeless hardly falls under the jurisdiction of a god of time and space.”

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[gentilitea]

…Ugh, Add logic. “As you wish.” He should be glad Add’s willing to put in the time and the effort now, but Jakob eyes his scrawny build rather critically anyway, as he sets to with plating up the curry himself, his movements brisk and practiced, with naught a single drop of curry spilled out of place.

Maybe Add can learn by example, who knows? Jakob takes another glance at Apocalypse and wonders if his master might not benefit from a bit more physical effort, his inventions be damned.