As she had arrived in Crocus she expected a bigger job than this but her hand was holding on to a paper that gave her an invitation to being a baker for a night. Like baking hamburgers and such. She stared at it with an reaction that didn’t really say how much she hated this idea. Wasn’t she an appreciated knight and now this? What kind of ridicule job was this? She had been once at Batra’s inn or no, twice she had captured a conman for him and apart from that she had met Tori here after their disaster with the Cell games. In which Tori was hit and hurt and Alice had run away. She sighed, she was no longer alone and full of disaster but she hated that she would have to do this job, because cooking in an armour was impossible. She had never thought she would feel so vulnerable without it at this point. She thought about Isabella, maybe the girl felt more save in a dress and heels, Alice doubted it but it was no way for her to know unless she talked to the page and at the moment she didn’t feel the need to give her a call. She expected her to be in Orchidia but she had not showed up and Alice was called away for other jobs in Crocus on the route to go to Era. But this job, it made her furious. The young woman that was rumoured to be the next lieutenant baking hamburgers and fries. She would have to let it go because it would also show a bad attitude if she didn’t do it.

Maybe that’s why the whole job was send to her, to snicker behind her back and see if she would take it. If she didn’t she wouldn’t be for the people and she wouldn’t be accepted as a lieutenant the way she wanted and yet if she did it, she felt like she was accepting that they could pull her and push her in every direction that they wanted and she would simply have to accept it. She could yell about this later, she first needed to get to the point of no return and step inside the inn to take the job at hand. It was near dinner time and that’s when the time on the letter told her that she had to start. With her ears flat on her head she headed inside, she had hidden her tail within the leg of her jeans and made sure not to swish it too hard from left to right out of agitation. She would smile lovingly at people as she passed them and they stared at her, but her ears told the true, she headed up the bar and placed the letter including the quest on the counter and Batra smiled at her and thanked her for coming, ugh, too annoying. She was given an apron which made her ears not get upright but more flat on her head and she grabbed it and passed the door to get behind the counter and into the kitchen.

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He would quickly explain a few things to her and she assured him that she had cooked most of her own life and that she only recently became used to the luxury life of not cooking at all, but she would handle. She put the apron over her head and knotted the cords behind her back. She flipped her hair over her shoulders out of the cord around her neck and lifted it up to put it in a messy ponytail and get the long orange hair out of her face.
She would start easy with French fries and a hamburger. Now the hamburger was even easier because she never had made French fries but in the end after messing up one, that no one had to know, she finished them perfectly and served them through the door to the bar and Batra would take over from her. That was the easy part, after that there were other orders that she first didn’t understand how to make but she would not screw this up royally, she needed the points to be a nice person, doing whatever job was given to her. She had to be nice when two more hamburgers and five hot dogs were ordered at the same time and she had to hurry to prepare them too, alright the hamburgers were least of her worry but how to make the hot dogs was most of the problem. While keeping an eye on the meat, she would fix the buns and unions, gherkins and sauces and finish it a little later than she had hoped because Batra came checking on her once. She didn’t complain, she smiled, continued and grumbled as he was gone, she would be finished in a minute and put them again on the other side of the door and headed back inside before someone saw her. She was losing her happy mood and her mask to act but fine, most of the people seemed to have ordered drinks and she was off for a while before a breaded chicken wing was ordered and not much later another one. Thank god that wasn’t that hard either.
She would sit at a stool that was in the kitchen and crossed her arms in front of her as it took more than ten minutes for another order to arrive. She leaned with her back against the wall which was cool and she felt heated from standing in the warm kitchen. She closed her eyes but had her ears perched up to keep on listening in case she heard a noise. Nothing happened and she was sure she almost dozed off if she didn’t hear the door again but she jumped up before her eyes could open properly, ”Thanks for your work, Alice.” What time was it? Did she sleep, ”It was no problem at all, I’m happy I could help.” she said but she accepted the jewels obviously. She would take the apron off and headed out of the kitchen to go back to the place where she was staying right now.

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