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Even though you have still not set foot into the store, you can clearly see all of the kitchen sundries that the store has on display in the window. The very first thing that catches your eye is the cast iron skillet. When you and father are not going to eat the cafeteria’s offerings for the day, the responsibility of cooking has fallen on you – pretty much ever since you came to the Midden, eight years ago. You don’t mind, not really, but what has always irritated you is what little you have to work with. And of the limitations, the most egregious in your mind is the lack of a skillet. For years, you have had to make do, using a battered and almost perpetually rusting pot in place of one. It works well enough … actually, to be honest, it works fine, it is just … it size makes it annoying to clean, and the walls of the pot make it awkward to flip meat.
Obviously, you knew better than to pester father about buying you one, as there really was no need for one … but now, now that you have your own money … why shouldn’t you buy one for yourself? It is really so frivolous, so indolent to want to have the proper tools for a task? Of course it isn’t! Father couldn’t possibly fault you over this, surely not. No one could.
As you try to puzzle out how many gull breasts or rat hindquarters you could fit on the skillet at once, you notice the small cast iron pot next to it. It is a good-looking piece of metalwork– it makes the ones back in the kitchen look like they were pulled out of a refuse pile … which, for all you know, they could have been. It is smaller too … would a smaller pot get up to temperature quicker? It should, shouldn’t it …
By the time that you tear your eyes away from the display, you have not only decided to buy the skillet and the small pot, but you also have settled on picking up the stand for the pot, some new crockery, and a gutting knife. The stand makes sense, because sooner or later, you are going to end up wanting to cook with the pot or skillet somewhere without a stove or an oven. You are getting the gutting knife, because you do not want to be dressing animals with the pin-stilettoes. And the earthenware … well, you are getting that because as far as you can figure, it is a good buy for the price, and it just looks so crisp, and clean, and white.
There were other things that you were considering as well, chief among them that baby cauldron … but you reigned yourself in. None of the stuff was necessary like the stuff you have committed to purchasing … or in the case of the crockery, as good of a buy <span class="mu-i">and</span> as appealing. Besides, a Witches’ cauldron should be a <span class="mu-i">full-sized</span> cauldron. Actually, now that you think about it, a Witch should really have two cauldrons, one for magicking and one for cooking.
With this stop already off to a great start, you crane your neck a little bit to see if you can see anything else from where you stand on the sidewalk, but you cannot.
