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[ Anyone near the kitchen might notice Duke in there. At first he's just walking about, a little awkwardly, perhaps, taking turns and just mentally mapping where everything is. He pauses occasionally, hearing the sound of one of those magic fairies, but since he can't figure out what it is, it's ignored.

After that he's going to start cooking, and if knives near fingers make you nervous, don't watch him. Although he's doing fairly well at not nicking his fingers as he starts working on making something involving eggs.

Not doing so well at keeping his fingers free of egg, so there might be a tiny bit of that dripped on the page before the sounds of stirring and him finding things comes through the journal. ]

... If it was not this warm inside the castle.. what would you have done to keep yourself warm? [ He probably would have just become a mass of blankets and tried to sleep through winter, because there's no desert for him to wander off to, but shush. Chop chop chop - silence. ]

.....Stings..

((OOC: Feel free to come in and ask him to make an omelet for you too, or take advantage of the fact his hands are a bit busy for kissing! I promise no stabbing will happen. 8D))

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[He doesn't MIND precisely, but it's probably good that Duke can't tell he's staring]

I feel like I know the answer, but I have to ask...why attempt to do this yourself when you can simply ask the ghosts?

[ Give Duke a moment to answer - one he spends with the knife against the cutting surface and pushing the uncut vegetables right up against the edge. ]

... Would rather do some things myself still. [ He has been, once in a while. ]

[He figured that's what the answer would be. It's why he's in here so often himself, but it helps to know how others feel]

Would you like some help, then? Unless you're a fan of pain.

.... [ Duke seems to think on that. It's still not doing it himself. But his hand stings.

So Duke puts the knife carefully down, and inches the cutting board carefully Felix's way. He turns to take carefully measured steps directly to the sink to try to clean his hands. ]

[Felix takes up the knife with a bemused expression and eyes Duke's progress towards the sink]

So what exactly are you making?

[He doesn't quite notice that a fairy has perched itself on the cupboard overhead]

[ He's managing it! Even if he knocked his knee against the cupboard under it on the last step. ]

Omelet. Egg, milk, some other things. I usually add onion; depends on what else is available for everything else. [ ... His hand stings... And since Felix has the knife, Duke decides that healing his hand would be a good idea at this time. ]

[Probably a good idea, and Felix will observe with undisguised interest while he very slowly picks up where Duke left off with the onions]

Well, I'm hardly an expert. I never had to cook for myself before I came here.

[ carefully feeling to see what damage was left - none, so Duke carefully turns about and takes those oddly measured steps toward the counter again. He doesn't knock his knee this time. ]

Hmm. Learned among the knights - how to make basic foods, at the least. [ Where did that frying pan go and was the burner hot ye-

.. yes, yes it is. ]

[Felix pauses to look over, and frowns. He's pretty sure Duke doesn't want to be treated, but his success was marginal at this point]

And how much of that did you do, blind?

[Silently he sets the knife aside and goes to the sink to fetch a washcloth, running it under the cold water]

.... None. [ Just going to shake his fingers out a little more. Is it a good thing or a bad thing he's only using one hand for all of this testing heat and getting close to knife stuff. ]

Uncertain if I would have been allowed into the knights, if I had been blind...

So this is a result of the castle?

[He'll come over and drop the cloth into Duke's hand. Stop hurting yourself, dude :|]

.. Corre- [ That's kind of cold. It makes the burn feel better, but how he's a bit lost on how to continue trying to cook with one hand holding onto a wcet washcloth. ]

.. Perhaps should have attempted something simpler first.

Well, you've got this far, you should just...

[He pauses to swat at a ball of glowing light, that explodes with shimmering dust. Oh...]

...you should just wrap that around your hand. Like this...

[He doesn't really ask permission before he's taking Duke's hand in his and gently winding it around the wounded fingers]

[ Huh, the tinkling noises stopped. Not that Duke really noticed, because there's a hand holding onto his and a sudden decision says he likes that. So there isn't more than a brief twitch at the unexpected contact, and no reaction to the dust that just started sticking to his hair.

.. That feels much better. And he can still use that hand! So Duke turns slightly to more or less face Felix, and there's a flicker of a not-often used smile. ]

Thank you. [ Part of him thinks more cooking should get done, and part of him things that he should do something with Felix, so as a compromise, that hand stays with Felix's. ]

[Cooking can wait a minute. Felix is more focused on that smile at that moment.]

You're welcome...

[He leans forward, touching his lips to Duke's, tongue flickering out just slightly to trace his lower lip as he kept hold of the other man's hand]

[ Duke's slightly confused at this motion, and then he's distracted because this contact, while confusing and bringing him all sorts of scents he'd problably not have noticed until something else caused him to invade Felix's personal-space, although what would really cause him to invade someone's personal space on purpose was currently beyond him.

Other than kissing. That seemed like a pretty good idea, even if Duke was completely confused about what to do. Felix can probably pick up on Duke being completely unsure of what to do.

Which is probably why he tries to ask what he should be doing. Probably not the best idea he's ever had, but shush. ]

[Whatever Duke was going to ask is probably more or less lost as Felix takes advantage of the other man opening his mouth to slip in his own tongue.

His other hand might also be sliding up Duke's neck and into his hair.]

[ There's definitely more than enough hair for Felix to put his hand into, and it might even be surprisingly tangle free for a blind man with this much hair.

And he... really has no idea what to do. Something, obviously, but this situation is new enough that... distracted. Felix, what did you eat last?

Do something translates into trying to figure out exactly what is going on with this. A little bit of trying to figure out what's moving with his tongue. And perhaps a little awkwardly, his free hand will start trying to figure out what Felix.. more or less looks like. ]

[That might be the desert from last night Duke is tasting - a hint of chocolate and cherries - Ashura never went without some kind of sweet, after all.

Felix doesn't mind the touching. Normally he would, if he weren't preoccupied with trying to kiss the other man. His tongue flickers, coaxing, sucking slightly on Duke's lower lip, because this really isn't as fun if the other person doesn't RESPOND, dammit]

[ Duke would ask how one is supposed to respond, but that worked so well before hand. But chocolate and cherries are good, and he thinks, with Felix keeping moving, that maybe that's what is supposed to happen? This is what he gets for having gone hermit.

So his attempts to figure out what Felix looks like via touching becomes absentminded, because he's going to mimic what Felix had been doing with most of his attention. ]

[That's...better. A little. But he'll make an encouraging sound at that anyway. He even lets go of Duke's hand and circles it around the other man's waist instead]

[ Sorry, Felix, Duke wasn't aware that knowing how to kiss was something important. But that encouraging sound means he was doing something right, right? At least Duke thought it was being encouraging, so he's doing a little less of mimicking and more of trying things in the same vein.

What is he supposed to do with his hand now? Um. ]

[Welcome to Felix's priorities. He smiles lightly and deepens the kiss a bit.

You're on your own with the hand, though.]

[ He'll work on figuring out what to do with his hand later, maybe, possibly, because he thinks that was a smile and smiles should be good, right? Unless they were mocking or teasing but there's a difference he can't quite grasp with those.

And then changing a little and he isn't sure what to do - Other than stop trying to think so much. That would probably help things. He'll just. Try things that seem similar to what Felix does. Should work, right? He's a bit fail at this... ]

[Well, he's sort of getting the idea now, but he's starting to get the feeling that Duke isn't really getting into the spirit of this. It feels too...mechanical to him. It's a little disquieting.

He breaks the kiss with a slight sight and a parting nip to Duke's lips, though he still has that arm around the other man.]

You don't do this much, do you?

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