Chapter 504: Dig In!
“Alright!” Derek rubbed his hands together in anticipation of what Silvi was going to bring out. He knew that she’d be serving them something to do with wyvern meat, but he wasn’t exactly sure what.
While floating above the center of the table, Silvi’s Mage Hands began rapidly dishing out empty plates in front of each person. To start with, they each received a single medium-sized plate. Once that was placed, a massive bowl appeared directly underneath the bunny, on the center of the table.
Inside the bowl was what could only be described as a very colorful salad. There were greens that looked like lettuce and spinach, reds that had the appearance of tomatoes, along with other vegetables of different colors.
“This is our first dish!” Silvi’s voice chimed from above. “It is a salad that I painstakingly chopped up from the Echoing Willow Stick while it was still alive. It was very hard to do. Had to dodge so many leaves…” she explained.
“Wait…” Derek said. “What do you mean that you did it while it was still alive? Is that why it took so long for you to get up there and light it on fire? Were you playing with your food?”
“Maybe…” Silvi muttered. Then, in a lower voice from the crystal, said, “I had to make sure I got plenty of greens for any future cooking I did. They were the only parts that looked edible…”
“Oh well…” Derek shrugged. “At least you got them before they all burned up.”
“Exactly!” Silvi exclaimed. “Now… here!” With that, multiple Mage Hands began gathering handfuls of salad and carefully arranging them on the plates. One would think that, since it was salad, that Silvi would just place a certain amount on each plate and move on, but instead, she carefully made each plate nearly identical in presentation.
“Pretty!” Thomas said from his seat, then reached out to grab a piece from the plate, but when his hand drew in close, it was batted away by one of the Mage Hands. “Ouch!”