You are my Sunshine

[empress_without_a_throne]

[The battle with the Great Black Void was over... and it had brought with it surprising revelations.  First... Mizuki's little brother had gotten all grown up, and Zankuro was trying now to desperately console his parents and tell them he still wanted to be treated like a little kid and go to kindergarten.  But Mizuki is in the infirmary, bandaged up and with a tiny little mechanical blackbird sitting on her shoulder.  With the DuskBird so thoroughly destroyed, all she could do was try to grow a new one.  But standing in a little balcony outside and looking at the Sun, she was noticing something, or rather something's absence.]

-It doesn't hurt.  The sunlight doesn't...

Quick, someone get me something to eat!  Anything... just... just what normal people would have!

[And one bite of a burger later though and Mizuki's already spitting it out.]



That's disgusting!  How can anyone eat something like that?!?

[But at the same time, no vomiting.  Seems the Abyss's victory over the Void has had an unexpected payoff.]

Comments

[empress_without_a_throne]

That's just it... there's like... too many flavors! You can't appreciate any of it!

[And when she breaks off a piece of the bar and chews it, even more wincing.]

And this is too bitter! This is what candy's supposed to taste like?!?

[stupidhonor]

B-bitter?! It is so sweet...

[Sielje seems heartbroken.]

What were your meals like before?

[empress_without_a_throne]

Well they were delicious... they might've gotten a lot of stares but that didn't mean it couldn't taste great or be great to eat.

One of these days I'm going to have to show you what deep angler or jellyfish can taste like.

[stupidhonor]

Jelly... fish? Is this the kind of creature that dwells in ocean depths?

[Sielje pictures an animal not exactly like it really is...]

[empress_without_a_throne]

They do! Nothing else looks anything like them, and a lot of them are poisonous too...

But if you cook it and treat it then you get something that just tastes... amazing! Not like this ridiculous excuse for a meal.

[stupidhonor]

Poisonous?

[Sielje takes a step back, looking both surprised and suspicious.]

... Are you fine?