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[florian has been wandering around the village today, peeking in shops, attempting to climb trees, stalking bugs through the grass. the usual thing. he might have even run into one of you wonderful lucetians, it's a definite possibility.

it's been a really long time since he actually properly wrote in this journal thing of his, too, come to think of it - so sometime this afternoon, after a good few hours of running around, he sits down on the ground somewhere and asks an important question.]

I just thought of something...how do you know what you're not supposed to eat? Like, you can eat spinach but you shouldn't eat leaves.

...Do deer eat leaves? Maybe I can eat them after all...

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Yeah. [ Okay, done cutting off spikes! He starts cutting slices now. ] Stabbing makes holes. But cutting makes lines. Like this.

...That makes sense. [He watches the slicing in silence for a minute.]

So you use forks to stab things with, right?

Right. [ Aaalright, then. ] Ready to try some? [ He puts the knife down, picks up a slice, and hands it to Florian before picking up one for himself. ]

Ready! [He cheerfully accepts the fruit, taking a really big bite as if it were a watermelon slice or something.

...It's got a lot more flavor than a watermelon, for sure!]

[ /bite!

... ]

Maybe I should have taken more of the skin off. [ These seems a little too chewy. ]

[Working on chewing his own mouthful over here.]

Maybe we could try to eat around the skin?

Yeah...

[ Kohan bends the slice in half and bites a part of the fruit, avoiding the skin. He chews it for a few seconds, then nods. Yes, this seems better. ]

[Florian's not quite so careful, just going right in and taking another bite, skin or not.

...He pauses a moment to see how Kohan eats though, then tries doing it that way instead.]

[ Kohan finishes chewing and swallowing before he speaks again. ]

Yeah, that's better. Well, I think I like it. What about you, Florian?

[Chewing...chewing....swallowing...]

.....Me too! I think it tastes good.

Good. I'll cut the rest of the slices in half. That way we can avoid the skin.

[ /chop chop ]

Do you think there's anything that eats the skin too?

[watching...]

[ And done! Here, have more slices. ]

Any animals that eat it would have to eat the skin. ... Not sure if any animals eat it, though.

[Yum more pineapple!]

Because the skin is too much trouble? Or maybe it's because they grow somewhere that animals can't reach them. Or the store took them all?

I don't think the store takes all of them. [ He laughs. Oh Florian you so silly. ] Probably the spikes.

You never know! The store could be magic. [Laughing along though! He can't help it.] Spikes makes sense! Since they can't cut the spikes off like we do.

Yeah. Those look even worse to eat than the skin.

An animal would have to split it open somehow.

With a sharp rock or something! Right?

Or maybe they step on it.

Hmm...wouldn't that hurt though? Unless they've got really hard feet.

Horses and things like that have hooves, right?

Oh, that's true! So they could step these things if they wanted.

And it probably wouldn't hurt. And once they broke it open, they could eat through the hole.

[ He laughs softly. ]

But it sounds like you'd ruin a lot of the fruit that way.

You could still eat smashed fruit though, right? So it works out in the end.

Yeah. You'd get dirt all over it, though.

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