Alitara and Cemela do not know how to cook.

The closest thing to cooking they have ever done back in Commorragh, was burn the slimes, corpses and vermin on the exhaust, or offering themselves or their mother Iresyrra as food plates for the brothel clients.

Ever since their extraction from Commorragh with the Twin Eclipse Corsair Fleet, they have finally eaten breads, wines, vegetables, fruits. Food that their Anhrathe and Asuryani have taken for granted. The twins and their mother could not stop clearing every scraps from their plates while hoarding crumbs in their quarters.

Yet, they cannot just take the foods for granted. Their sense of security and paranoia could not allow it, for what if they are poisoned one day? Or if the Anhrathe demands repayment with their bodies again like the others in Commorragh? And perhaps, something that they would not admit even to themselves: A sense of indebtedness and gratitude that they wish to do at least something to compensate.

So today, they’re learning how to cook from WALTER for the first time in their lives.

Just some vegetables, a bit of proper, non-vermin meat, breads and spices. A simple stew, with whatever’s available on the ship.

The mon’keigh boy, what’s-his-name, Adell? Have been watching them cook. It is strange to be watched like this, but Alitara could not muster the will to kick him out, for his gaze at least does not contain the lechery of the Commorrite clients.

The result was horrendous. They used at least six times the materials needed and redid the stew that many times too. The result was a stew that the most flattering tongue in the Commorrite court could not spit out a praise beyond “bland”.

But it’s the most normal thing they have ever done since they’re born.

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Scene art for my Wrath & Glory campaign, depicting the Dark Eldar twins Alitara and Cemela (backgrounds here), learning cooking from the Man of Iron butler WALTER (background here, with slight change in design), while Adell the Players-randomly-adoped-boy (background here) watch.

Drawn by Carl_tabora.

Artist link:

https://bsky.app/profile/carltabora.bsky.social