Page 55 of Forgotten Arcane

“You’re amazing, Mom. Thank you,” I tell her honestly, this phone call has gone a lot smoother than I thought it was going to.

“I know,” she chuckles. “To be honest, I should have done it a lot sooner for you.”

“What about you, Dad?” I ask, “Will you help teach us how to cook?”

My dad is an amazing cook, and it’s actually surprising that I turned out as bad as I am.

Dad chuckles, “Not this time. If your mom is planning a banquet, then I need to make sure that everything is set up properly, and I also need to make a big batch of my famous chili.”

“Oh man, I love your chili,” I reply, my stomach rumbling at the thought. I voice my previous thought out loud, “You know it’s surprising that I turned out to be such a shitty cook when you’re both so good at it.”

“We should have taught you more,” Mom replies.

“That’s okay, you can teach us now,” I grin. “And besides I didn’t want to be taught back then, I was either spending every free moment that I could with Neith or planning to go to the Magical Academy and making sure that my gifts were up to scratch.”

They both chuckle at the reminder.

“I’ll teach you how to make my chili when we’ve got more time,” Dad adds, “I’ll have to get up pretty early to start it tomorrow, and then add things at different points during the day.”

My eyebrows raise, “I had no idea that it was that involved.”

Dad chuckles, “No one does.”

“Alright, we will see you tomorrow after lunch,” I reply. “Love you.”

“Love you,” they say together as they hang up and leave me smiling.

Right now, I’ve just got to go and tell the others that we’re leaving slightly earlier than we had planned so that Mom can teach us to cook. I’m actually really looking forward to it, and Raiden and Neith should still have plenty of time to do the research that they want to.

I know that Coen and River plan to go for a fly and run. Ransom wants to work on the ward that will keep us all hidden while we’re out and about like the Elders had suggested, Griff and Reed are planning to work on some flight maneuvers that I think Coen is going to help with once he’s done with River, and I need to go to my pool.

I need to recharge properly.

“How did it go?” Neith asks as soon as I walk back into the kitchen, where they are all gathered and now sitting at the table and talking.

I grin, “Great. We’re going over after lunch tomorrow, and she’s going to teach us all how to cook some things for the banquet, and she’s also making us a cookbook with some of her easy recipes for us to take home so that we’re not eating takeout as often.”

There’s silence for a moment before everyone starts grinning.

“God, I love your mom,” Neith chuckles.

“To be honest, we could do with the help,” Reed agrees.

Coen clears his throat, “I can cook pretty well.”

“No way?” River asks.

Coen nods, “Yep, I cooked all the meals with the Draconian team, but it was actually something that I didn’t mind doing. I know it’s probably odd, but I find cooking really calming.”

“While I hate that you were made to do it, I love that you enjoyed it,” Neith replies.

Coen grins, “Yeah, so I can help teach you guys some stuff as well or I can just cook our meals.”

River frowns, “No way, man. We all contribute in this family, there’s no way that we would let you cook for us all the time.”

“Especially since you were made to do it with the Draconian team,” Reed adds. “But, I for one, would love to learn more about cooking, we all need to get better at it.”

“Agreed,” Doc replies. “We’ll have lots of recipes to practice from Calia, you know that she’s not just going to do a couple of recipes written on a sheet of paper.”

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