Who: Jon and Mia Kent What: Making dinner and discussing their lives When: Before Jon's log with Sophie Warnings: None.
Jon was chopping vegetables. It was his job. Mia was a very good cook, and Jon was merely a passable one, but their mother had culinary skills one would expect of someone who regularly worked twenty-hour days. It was easier for Jon to work his way up to Mia's level than for their mother to work her way up to Jon's level.
Right now, he wasn't doing a good job of it, as there was an audible splintering as he cut. He looked down to find that he'd passed right through the carrots and into the board, and for all his mother's insisting that she follow a diet with more fiber in it, he suspected this was not what she meant.
"Sorry." Jon separated the carrots from the cutting board shrapnel. "My mind was elsewhere, I guess."