Chapter Sixty-Five: The Chef and the Engineer
You're on errand duty until the cubs are born. If the Snake King wants a specific berry from the top of a mountain, you fly until your wings fall off."
By afternoon, a new, surreal tradition had begun to form in the village. Qin Mo, finding that the new metal pots made the cooking process significantly faster and more precise, had taken over the kitchen duties entirely.
He found a strange, meditative peace in the chopping and stirring, though his "imperial" personality remained as prickly as ever.
He did not cook for the village. He did not cook for the Dragon warriors at large. He prepared a rich, aromatic stew specifically for Lin Wan, using the "miracle spices" she had pulled from her storage—dried garlic, sea salt, and a pinch of black pepper that made the steam rising from the pot smell like absolute heaven.
