[ Keeping some sense of normalcy is absolutely her goal. Even though their idea of "normal" may not exactly be mainstream, it's important to keep them grounded, at least she believes so. Orihime has been worried that it might come off as complacency, an acceptance of their situation and a lack of desire to change it. Because there have been good things, hasn't there? She's gotten to spend time with him, she's made new friends, but...
...but their end goal is to leave this place. They have to get home and fight another battle. Yet every day in Deerington can't be spent fraught in worry and in disappointment of their lack of progress. Others have spent years in this town, and while she does think that Ichigo can make a difference, she also doesn't want him to to feel pressured to be the only one to push forward. If time really is paused, the time is something they do have.
Which means there's time to have some okonomiyaki and set fire to paper.
So she smiles at his appraisal of the cabbage and heads back inside. She'll have to flip a few lights back on to actively cook, though. ]
It is! It might be more than we need for tonight...although I could just make really, really fat okonomiyaki? Mmm, what do you think, Kurosaki-kun?
[ Orihime pulls two different packages out of the refrigerator. ]
They didn't have octopus so we'll have to improvise. I did get some sort of white fish, though? And I got chicken! Which one would you like? Or maybe both?
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Date: 2020-07-24 05:04 am (UTC)...but their end goal is to leave this place. They have to get home and fight another battle. Yet every day in Deerington can't be spent fraught in worry and in disappointment of their lack of progress. Others have spent years in this town, and while she does think that Ichigo can make a difference, she also doesn't want him to to feel pressured to be the only one to push forward. If time really is paused, the time is something they do have.
Which means there's time to have some okonomiyaki and set fire to paper.
So she smiles at his appraisal of the cabbage and heads back inside. She'll have to flip a few lights back on to actively cook, though. ]
It is! It might be more than we need for tonight...although I could just make really, really fat okonomiyaki? Mmm, what do you think, Kurosaki-kun?
[ Orihime pulls two different packages out of the refrigerator. ]
They didn't have octopus so we'll have to improvise. I did get some sort of white fish, though? And I got chicken! Which one would you like? Or maybe both?