Ironically, the stuttering or the fact that he’d seemed to forgotten to eat didn’t strike her as all that weird. Her sister Lilah was notorious for forgetting to eat and that similarity brought her mothering instincts to a head a bit, but she was quick to squash them down, this was a grown man after all. Chances were he wouldn’t take very well to a stranger telling him that he had to try harder to remember meals otherwise he was liable to malnourish himself.
The stuttering wasn’t a trait shared by her sister but she did know more than a few children in the daycare that had stutters. She’d learned a long time ago to let them work through it and treat them like they were normal otherwise they tended to get upset.
“I think there’s some bread left in the kitchen and the fridge probably has some leftovers packed up from dinner if you wanted to take a look at that,” she said motioning for him to follow her into the kitchen proper. She was almost certain she’d seen bread on the counter when she had come in and sure enough it was there when she put the cocoa container down.
“Dinner was vegetable soup, garden salad, and some roasted venison if anything of that sounds good to you.” There were other vegetables of course but he said he had plenty already she didn’t mention them as she pulled a mixing bowl down from the shelf and pulled the containers of flour and sugar her way.