/lobbing novels at each other is so en vogue
[Half an hour quickly turns into an hour, then two, and before Ciel even realizes it, three has passed in quick succession and he's beyond starving to death. He's sure by the end of it that Sebastian, even in his half-lucid state, had tossed risotto at him as a retaliation tactic because are you joking right now.
The first half hour (well, the first half hour after he spent fifteen minutes trying to knot his eye patch on- it's seriously a knot, Sebastian might have to cut it off) involved Ciel staring at the pot as it "lowly simmered". He'd placed the flame on low, apparently too low, as the liquid inside refused to do anything more than spit up a few bubbles every now and then.]