Isaac looked at the meal presented to him in abject confusion and horror. His gaze shifted to Mary and the now awakened yet pale Nat, as pale as a cloud could become. They were curtly eating their breakfast with a calm and composed manner, eating what could be discerned as ‘bacon and eggs’ similar to the food in his own world.
What he was eating however, was a mockery of the food in his own world. Isaac poked at the thing supposed to be a pancake.
If a pancake was supposed to be made of stone.
“What in the world?” Isaac calmly placed the silver utensils back onto the table, looking at the assortment of “food” in disgust. Mary failed to suppress a chuckle and Isaac glared at her for failing to do so. “This is not funny.”
“What, the fact that your food is made of not food?” Mary smirked as she looked at Isaac condescendingly, shoving a cloud egg into her mouth. Nat grinned with her mouth full of cloud bacon strips.
“This is not food.” Isaac crossed his arms to sulk a bit. He was hungry and this mockery of food was making him angry. He was knocked out of it when a frying pan once more smacked the top of his head. “ARGH!”
“Be grateful I even decided to cook you food, titan.” Alicia reprimanded as she walked to the kitchen, frying pan in hand. “It was a chore trying to find the materials.”
“But this can’t even be considered food!” Isaac picked up the bowl of lava that was supposed to be “soup”. “This would literally kill me.”
“I cooked them with magic, Isaac.” Alicia sighed in disappointment, hands aglow with magic to cook something as well. “They should taste the same as you would remember.”
Isaac pouted before he looked to the mush that he could discern to be fertilizer. Oddly enough it had no such smell of feces. The only normal thing on the table was water.
Isaac grimaced, taking the stone slab that was shaped like a pancake before opening his maw and placing his serrated teeth on it. Isaac was surprised when his teeth cut through the stone like it was an actual food item. The stone did not fracture into pieces, and Isaac looked to the pancake in surprise at the shape of the bite. He chewed a bit, and his cyan circles widened in brightness at the taste.
“It tastes like actual pancakes.” Isaac munched in bewilderment. The taste had a stone-like aftertaste, and Isaac felt the texture of the stone with his tongue. The texture was smooth yet it reminded him of igneous rock.
Isaac looked to the bowl of lava, glowing hot and oddly enough not even melting the bowl. Isaac picked the bowl up and sipped it a bit.
“CHICKEN SOUP!” Isaac shouted in surprise. The heat was delicious! The taste was amazing! Isaac took a scoop of the thing that was thought to be fertilizer. He tasted it a bit, and noticed it tasted no different from mashed potatoes.
Mary and Nat looked on in amusement at the titan eating the food with vigor, stuffing his maw with the mockery of food.
“Glad you liked it. Here’s some snacks.” Alicia placed a bowl onto the now empty table. Isaac looked to the bowl and almost regurgitated his meal upon seeing that it was filled to the brim with bugs and worms.
Isaac paled when the bugs were still writhing and worming around in the bowl. “You expect me to eat this?”
“Yes, you need to keep a healthy gut after all.” Alicia smirked at Isaac, Nat and Mary looking on in amusement. To them, they were material versions of the insects found on this plane as well. They were a good snack for travellers alike.
Isaac gulped in fear.
“I did not like the snacks…” Isaac picked out the bug that was stuck inside his mouth, throwing it back in and swallowing it whole. “At all.”
Mary chuckled along with Nat, their bellies full of food. “And I thought that you were a fearsome titan.”
“I am not a fearsome titan.” Isaac rebuked, but it held partial truth. “Only my body.”
Isaac stood outside the mansion, ready to go and get his job done. The pegasi at the mountains were the ticket to him finishing this war with the Sky King. Once he gained their powers he should be able to manipulate air and fight the tyrant on equal grounds.
“I would wish you good luck, paladin.” Alicia whispered as she stood on the patio, smiling like a grandmother about to see her grandchildren leave for the city once more. “Mary, Nat… Be careful out there…”
“We will. Thank you, Madame Alicia.” Isaac waved at Alicia with good will, wishing her good luck as well. “I’ll protect them both.”
“Ready my guardian?” Mary smiled as Isaac gave her a thumbs up. She looked at Nat as well, but her smile told her as much.
“Before all of you depart, here.” Alicia waved her hands and a blast of light immediately created a magic circle beneath the group, shocking Isaac.
“It’s a teleportation circle. It will send you straight to the base of the mountain where the pegasi resides.” Alicia smiled in sorrow as well. “Unfortunately I had placed no sigil at the top.”
As the circle brightened, Isaac looked to Alicia through the white veil. Behind the glass window, Isaac could see a familiar face peering through.
”Sera?”
“You can call me grandma, too.” Alicia waved her hands as the group disappeared from her sight, back on track on the journey as well.
A single tear drops onto the wooden patio.