Prompt 17: Cooking Together (Saraya DeMott/Private Ortega)
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Private April Ortega could only stare at the campfire, head cocked slightly, as she watched the Courier frying up some grilled mantis. The NCR soldier knew that Saraya was a bit...weird, to put it mildly. That just came with being with someone who had somehow survived getting a bullet to the skull and buried in a grave. But this was the first time she had seen anyone willing to eat fucking Giant Mantis...
"How the fuck can you eat that?" Private Ortega muttered, a confused tone evident in her voice.
Saraya just looked up from the cooking meat, eyebrow raised. "What are ya talking about, April?"
"I'm talking about the Grilled Mantis." April Ortega explained. "I mean the smell alone is making me gag."
And the NCR soldier wasn't even exaggerating that much. Words couldn't even be formed, to properly explain just how off the Mantis meat smelled. All she knew was that it was something she didn't want to smell again.
"You kidding, right? Grilled Mantis was pretty common back in Nipton." Saraya explained. "And if you think this smells like shit, you ain't even had Fire Ant meat."
"I'm sorry, you've eaten Fire Ant meat?" Private Ortega inquired in confusion.
"Oh yeah, when rations got low. I would not recommend it." Saraya responded, scowling slightly. "No matter how ya cook it, the meat always tastes charred, like it's been cooked way too much."
"You're fucking crazy, ya know that?" Ortega stated.
"Oh yeah, I know." The Courier answered back. "But ya love it."
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The Desert Dancer