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Toby slept most of the way from wherever it was Mr Venom picked him up until they reached the farm, and even then, he was still pretty groggy. The washroom was pointed out to him (and what a wonder that is, all shining and clean and good clean hot water right there without having to pump it or heat it on the fire or anything), and Toby did manage to scrub the mud off his face and shuck the outermost, muddiest layers of his clothes.

The kitchen seems like the best place for him, but when he finds it, he decides that it, like the washroom, is too posh for him to use much unless he has to or he's told to. Besides, there's not a proper fire going anywhere in the kitchen, and if there's one thing Toby really wants to find, it's someplace warm. A lot has happened lately-- too much to really, really take in, even-- and if he could just find somewhere warm and easy to sit for a while, to think things through... well, it can't hurt and might help.

He figures, though, that nobody's going to miss just one apple from the bowl, not if what Mr Venom told him about how many people live here is true.

If someone should wander in to tell the lad otherwise, he'll be most appropriately shamefaced-- especially since he's already taken a great big bite out of it.

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Speaking of breakfast! Oven glove on (let's just say that she learned about oven gloves the hard way) and whipping it out of the oven, stat!

Doesn't it smell gorgeous?

...if you want to eat off of a plate, my boy, then you're going to have to be the one to suggest it. Jona's put the grill down on a heat pad, and all the fancy accoutrements she needs are something with which to bat the sandwiches into a position from which they can be safely retrieved.

"Probably they've got paper," she muses. "They got everything here."

"S'useful for wrapping things up," Toby agrees. Perhaps paper's a bit more common where he's from, but Jona's been here long enough to know how to Do Things, and that's impressive.

And anyway, it's a sandwich. Part of the point of things like sandwiches and meat pies is that you don't need anything like a plate or a fork or anything to eat them, and Toby... well, he eats like somebody who hasn't had anything to eat but an apple in the better part of a day; almost as grateful as a starving man, if more willing to stop for conversation.

Jona, on the other hand, eats like someone who just really fancied a grilled cheese sandwich. There is some serious savouring going on here.

Also giggling. "Not too fast, you won't even taste it."

And taste is a very important part of the Grilled Cheese Experience!

God that is de- have you -licious ever tasted smelled such...

Well, it's really good.

"Efph miffs," Toby says, then swallows. "I mean, yes, miss. Been a while since supper, that's all."

Oh my God that's cheese good!

"Not ever going to go hungry here," says Jona, because she loves being the bearer of good news and Gods does this place ever have a lot of it to impart ~~apart from the monsters~~. "Miss Lucy -- she's the landlady -- she has a dragon servant what she sends out to get food from everywhere, even across the sea."

She also seems to have a knack for being slightly misinformed.

"Cor," and now Toby is slightly misinformed, too! Isn't it fun? "Wonder if she even needs an extra pair of hands..."

All the time is time for a little misinformation!

"Might do," Jona agrees with her mouth full. "Place must be kept together somehow."

She tries to pick up after herself and generally not cause trouble, but a house this grand must have servants of some kind. Just... really inconspicuous ones?

...or maybe they're ALL DRAGONS!

"Hope so. And then with all the new arrivals Mr Venom said there was, well, that's more work to be done, innit?"

Okay okay, what can Toby do in case he's called on to list his skills, seeing as how it's kind of hard to provide references when your references are in another universe, at best? Well, he can cook a bit and sweep up and can't shave anybody, not yet, but he can wait tables and run errands and really, it's not like he's not willing to learn. ... He can build a fire, that sort of seems like something not a lot of people would know how to do anymore, what with the MAGIC OVENS and DRAGON SERVANTS.

Hrm. Hopefully that will be enough for Miss Lucy, whenever he meets her.

"An' it's a farm, too. Farm always needs hands, don't it?" Except, you know. In the winter.

"That's what I hear!"

...she actually has no idea. Tryst is about twelve times the size of London. It's like a Georgian freaking Coruscant. Jona's never even seen a farm.

"People build things a lot. Don't know if they get paid for it."

"An'... grow things. An' milk cows." This concludes Toby's knowledge of what one does on a farm. Prompted somehow, he probably knows a bit more than that. "I mean, I've never really seen one, but that's what I've heard. An' there's always somebody needed for the cows or the fields or the... probably chickens and geese and things."

"No no no, here!"

Jona puts grilled cheese on temporary hold, because it's easier to clarify when you're not in danger of spitting food on anyone.

"Someone built the big earth hall, apparently. And the... whatever the ship's meant to be."

Big earth hall and the...

"... I were sort of groggy when I came in, miss. Nodded off in the carriage, didn't wake up prop'ly till I found the washroom. Reckon I should poke around outside, some."

Ship?

Whut?

This calls for the closest thing Toby has to a 'wtf' icon.

Ooh ooh ooh ooh can Jona play tour guide can she can she can she?

"I'll show you!" she declares.

"And the pond, and we can see if the Bison is around, too!"

THIS WAY, TOBY!

"-- All right," and grinning a bit because enthusiasm is kind of contagious, but in the good way. "Don't forget your sandwich?"

Bison?

This promises to be an interesting tour!

But he's on his feet and ready to follow.