Fortunately- or rather, unfortunately- however one wished to put it, Mya didn't awaken only to get herself into trouble. Sinbad on the other hand, wasn't quite so lucky. He'd accidentally slept in. Whether the cause was from exhaustion or something else entirely he couldn't say.

But waking up to find Ja'far laying sound asleep next to him certainly had him jumping to get up out of the bed and get away from the younger man while he could since the blond absolutely hated to be disturbed when he was resting. And had the habit of using some of his knowledge as a former assassin to make whoever did disturb him pay for their transgression.

Which begged the question, Where was Mya? And just how the hell had Ja'far wound up in bed next to him? Surely she hadn't woken up in the middle of the night, planted his friend in bed to take her place and run away.

Had she?

Moving as quickly as he could, Sinbad collected his clothing and rebound his long hair before escaping the room as silently and carefully as he could so that he could go search for his queen.

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Hinahoho and Masrur sat quietly in the kitchen watching Mya like they had since she had snuck out of her bedroom before dawn this morning, as she went about fixing several various dishes of food ranging from a wonderful smelling vegetable soup with cut up carrots, tomato's, potato's, pea's with basil and a touch of salt and pepper- to several nice home made breads that the two had been allowed to taste.

Several (eight or more) pheasants that Masrur had gone out this morning and hunted down and killed, gutted and plucked so that they could be cooked without little bother. Four plump rabbits (also skinned, gutted and field dressed) where as Hinahoho had gone out first thing this morning with his son and caught a fish nearly as large as his torso that he had brought back (it too was also cleaned, descaled and gutted) for either breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

He didn't care which as long as he got to eat some of it.

Where as his young son had returned to the palace with his own unique catch to be used for food. Shell fish. Clams to be exact. An entire large bucket full of them that Mya was currently shucking of their shells and setting the eatable pieces aside.

For what, they had no idea. But it was obvious to the two that she knew what she was doing from the way she handled the foods. Once she felt she had enough set aside, she then grabbed another pot to make some clam chowder, and then grabbed another pan to use to cook the clams before she could add them to the chowder once she had everything going pretty good.

"What are you making now?" Hinahoho asked curiously as he watched his adopted daughter work on cleaning some extra potato's and carrots and peas.

"Clam chowder," She replied before asking them. "Is there some more milk here that I can use? I think I may have used it all on the bread."

"I'll get it." Masrur said as he got to his feet and absently walked to the storage closet that the cooks used to store various things and found several large clay jugs of milk and then returned to the door and poked his head out so that he could ask her how much she needed.

Mya told him that she needed enough to fill the copper pot on the stove at least part of the way, making then fanlis nod in understanding while she finished cutting up the vegetables and placed them in the pot with some salt and pepper. And then found an onion and absently began to work on peeling, washing and cutting some of it up so that she could add it to the pot too as Masrur brought the large jug out of the storage closet and pored the milk into the pot so that she could start cooking everything.

It took a little bit of doing on Mya's part, but by the time she was done- there was enough food for an small army to eat. At which point Masrur, unable to stand the quiet anymore finally asked her, "Did you cook meals like this for you're grandfather?"

Mya glanced at the red eyed man in the polished gold colored armor with a thoughtful expression on her pretty face as she grabbed them a couple of plates and placed some pheasant and rabbit meat on each plate along with two medium sized pieces of bread before grabbing two bowels and then saying, "No. He wasn't well enough to eat such things. But from time to time- when my parents and siblings were still alive- we would have fish fries, and picnics. Usually for special occasions like birthdays or anniversaries. It was one of the few times I can recall everyone ever spending time together as a family. Now- vegetable or clam chowder?"

"Vegetable." Masrur said, feeling a mite curious on how the soup had turned out. It smelled nice enough, but he couldn't help but wonder what it tasted like.

"Clam." Hinahoho said with a grin, also curious about how the soup had turned out. If it was good then Sin should consider himself a lucky, lucky man to know that not only was his adopted daughter a scholar and a healer but a good cook as well.

She fixed both of them their dishes and then set them down in front of them and looked around for eating utensil's for a moment before turning back to the two men and found that they had somehow magically managed to get some forks, knives and spoons- all without moving an inch from where they sat causing her to put her hands on her hips and glare at them in vexation as they dug into their food.

And both were pleasantly surprised by how good everything tasted. It would appear that their Queen was a lady of many talents.

"Well guys, how's the food?"

Hinahoho just gave her a goofy grin as he finished off his last bit of bread and meat while Masrur started purring like an overly large cat in appreciation as he polished off what was left of his own meal. Causing Mya to smirk at them.

It would seem that her two shadow's were well and content with her cooking.

That was good.

Now all she had to do was feed everyone else she had run into yesterday and hope that it would be enough to occupy them so that they would leave her alone. After all, she wanted to have a good long look around this place to see if there was any way for her to get home.