Who? Tess and OTA (but stand alone is fine, too) What? Tess got hungry and decided to raid the complex kitchen. Where? The complex kitchen When? Present day, early evening.
As far as progress went, the girl had learned so much in a short amount of time. She felt that she had her living space, her apartment, absolutely mastered. Sleeping in her bed was so much better than the dirt floor of the cave she’d been living in prior to her arrival in Lawrence. She’d figured out how to use the tub and shower, too. The computer was still a bit of a mystery. She could see writing and pictures but wasn’t quite sure how to interpret any of that. Whatever the case was, she was having fun dropping in on people.
The girl didn’t see her lack of a wardrobe as a problem. She was perfectly fine with her one burlap dress, though the pictures of women she’d seen made her curious about women’s attire in this world.
There was a little rumble in her abdomen she recognized as hunger. Were she in her forest she would just go out, pick anything ripe from the trees she knew weren’t poisonous, but she wasn’t around any trees. She recalled one of the rooms she’d seen in the complex, a specific image of a basket of fruit coming to mind. It took all of three seconds to realize that the room could be the answer to her hunger pangs.
Barefoot and wearing her burlap dress, the girl found her way down hallways and staircases to the community kitchen. Thankfully, there was no one around. It wasn’t as if she felt a need to be sneaky, but she was still shy in crowds.
A smile spread across her face as her gaze fell on the apple she’d been thinking about. Quickly, as if someone might beat her to it, she snatched the fruit up and gave it a sniff before chomping into it.