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Shifting his mug to his left hand, Wu's grip made a stark display of his missing pinky for a moment before he moved for the freezer, putting his back to Carmel. "Since I was very young, yes," he answered, pausing to sip his coffee as Wu opened the freezer. "Cooking has always been a calming time for me, a bit of a retreat from the world. I have missed the opportunity, even if I did not pursue it to the lengths that you did."
Plus, in his old life, cooking his own food made it much harder to poison him. "And if your old passions run strong," he went on with a nod to her work, "Forgive me for intruding to observe, as I'm sure I will." Another sip of coffee before he looked back and shut the freezer, mentally tallying what he would be working with if he was cooking for... Call it twelve and be done.