[ Homura's not the type to idly wait around as while Ichigo prepares, instead she'll head straight to the meeting place. At least, right after she manages to get to get herself an apron. ]
[ Homura tilts her head to the side, looking baffled for a moment or two before her face turns back to her usual stoic one. She promised that she wouldn’t show emotions, but that isn’t as important when they’re dead. ]
[ Ichigo puts the pot of water on the stove and gets a thermometer out, making sure to raise the temperature to 90F and then turning the flame off while Homura chops. ]
Let me know when they're ready.
[ She's going to hold the temperature until Homura's ready. ]
[ She'll nod in response as she speaks in her usual soft voice, continuing to chop nice and slowly before nodding to Ichigo, speaking up slightly with a: ]
It's a way for tempering chocolate. If you don't temper the chocolate, it'll be really soft and goopy when someone picks it up. If it's properly tempered, then it'll cool down and have a nice snap to it when it's done. Right now we're going to melt it, then lower and raise the temperature with the remainder of the chocolate to form the fat crystals the way we want them to.
[ Another small nod from Homura as she pays close attention to the chocolate, hoping she doesn’t mess it up and get water on it. Because that would be bad. The chocolate must be perfect. ]
[ Homura nods in reply, deciding to take the spatula and then subsequently tie her hair up. Why didn’t she do this earlier? Nobody knows. But she’s doing it now so the chocolate doesn’t get in her hair before stirring it. She’s not going too fast, thankfully, but not too slow, either. ]
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[ Homura, so blunt... ]
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Akemi-chan! I grabbed enough chocolate to make at least one small box, I hope that's enough.
[ She didn't have advance notice, after all. ]
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[ it's got to be that type if it's only for one person. ]
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Thank you. It really means a lot to me.
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Is it honestly that surprising to hear?
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I've just never seen you smile like that before! It surprised me! This person must be really important to you.
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Can you chop the chocolate into tiny pieces while I set up the double boiler?
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[ She nods in response, using the knife to slowly chop up the chocolate. ]
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Let me know when they're ready.
[ She's going to hold the temperature until Homura's ready. ]
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[ She'll nod in response as she speaks in her usual soft voice, continuing to chop nice and slowly before nodding to Ichigo, speaking up slightly with a: ]
I'm finished.
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[ Ichigo's lowering the flame on the stove top completely to snuff it out. ]
We don't have a marble slab here, so we have to seed the chocolate, okay?
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[ Head tilt. Though she will put half in while following her instructions. ]
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We have to be careful to make sure that none of the water gets in the chocolate either, okay? It'll congeal if we do that.
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[ Another small nod from Homura as she pays close attention to the chocolate, hoping she doesn’t mess it up and get water on it. Because that would be bad. The chocolate must be perfect. ]
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Here, stir the chocolate around to even the melting and make sure that the chocolate on bottom doesn't burn.
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Is this alright..?
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[ She'll follow Ichigo's instructions down to the very letter. ]