It's a party for your taste buds. Or maybe torture. OTA (foreward date for tonight really)

[magnetic_magpie]

It's entirely possible the person who had caused this little challenge wasn't going to show up - that didn't matter. Really after the fun of having a third puberty - grant it only the second he remembered - he needed a distraction. So he'd been cooking more and when challenge to make something "really hot" he'd worked at it until he had something not only incredibly spicy - probably far more than most people could eat - but also flavorful. There was actual flavor, not just heat to the pasta he'd created.

And then he'd send word that this dish was ready and he'd put it together in Ten Forward. Over the last few days, he'd mentioned it here and there and towards the evening, he popped his cooktop into a girdle-type base and set up on a table to start cooking.

Winner gets bragging rights. It's only a moderately sized plate of pasta, how bad can it be right?

It's probably just food prep safety that has Magneto and Annie wearing gloves. Couldn't be the spice levels at all. And the cooler to the side that contains ice cream? Also not a warning.

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[real_or_notreal]

"This," Peeta says, a little breathless in his still overwhelming surprise and then with a slight laugh because of his own voice sounding like that. He can't keep the awe out, or the quietly longing hunger, of it and it makes him a little too self-aware. His smile turning slightly young and flushed as he reached up to rub his neck, before guesting at the thing again.

"Is it a stove?" He continued on, dropping down to look at the sides of it, while trying not to get in the way at all. "But it's not connected to anything. How does it work?"

[magnetic_magpie]

There's something in the tone that draws Magneto up a little short, posture softening a little. Children shouldn't be so excited over a stove like they are a thing of rarity, and if he's guessing correctly, no one does, unless they know what it's like for a stove and food to mean security more than walls and a roof ever could.

"Yes it's a stove. And it's powered by a battery pack, which is underneath the cooktop. It's called a magnetic induction cooktop, meaning it only heats up when the surface as a magnetic pan or plate on top. See?" He dropped a little water from a teaspoon onto an empty pan, which immediately steamed and boiled, and then touched the surface, which was completely cold.