Every Inch of Perfection [Closed]

Korra's hand was soft and delicate, not at all like a warrior's, there wasn't a callous or a blemish but it had such a warmth and welcome to it that made it easy to hang onto. Korra gave Parvati a gentle tug in a certain direction. "Then let's go, I'll show you the right way to sleep outside comfortably, it gets really easy after a few times." She spoke gently tugging Parvati along, her eyes bright and filled with a hope that was probably difficult to understand.

As she walked, Korra's eyes glanced about as she spoke, starting the lesson without letting go of the woman's hand. "The most important part is finding shade and also comfortable ground; If you sleep on rocks or hard soil you're going to have a bad time and the shade will protect you from the sun and make it easier to sleep through the dawn into the brighter morning hours." She explained looking for something that fit her description. She'd find a few shady trees or a few soft grassy knolls, but none seemed suitable for Korra as they sometimes missed the other requirement causing her walk with Parvati to last a while before finally finding a good tree. Glancing up, Korra stopped as if considering it, measuring in her head and wondering. While she was in thought though she was giving Parvati's hand gentle squeezes as if it helped her think.

 

Korra smiled back nodding to Parvati's question comment about shade. Stepping down with a bit of force against the grasses, she spoke back in a sweet mellow tone. "It's true, shade will help keep the sun out of your eyes letting you sleep longer. Otherwise the glare of the sun will wake you before anything else." She offered with a bright grin happily declaring this a good sleeping spot. "This is a good spot, though it's a little early maybe, are you hungry? Did you eat yet?" She asked glancing back to Parvati since Korra herself hadn't yet had her meal, she'd originally gotten money for such a thing but with a friend to spend the night with, such a thing was not at all good enough for a companion who would keep her company!

She gave Parvati's hand another gentle squeeze before tugging her along once more with a bit of excitement in her tone. "Come on, I know a good place for food here, do you have any favorites?" She asked as she tried tugging her through the grassier areas near town, farther from civilization step by step but the larger buildings were always within sight from a distance as Korra walked along wondering what they should eat. She looked as if she were grocery shopping in the wild as they went casually like a couple talking about dinner at the market.

 

Korra couldn't help laughing, finding Parvati's common sense to be lacking, it wasn't anything demeaning to the woman's intelligence, Korra instead found it cute, like someone who was trying to camp without ever knowing camping. A sweet smile crossed her face, but Korra herself had things rather easy with her magic's help, she slept with Kirin around and that was usually enough to prevent any kind of storm or robbery from happening to her while she was slumbering deep into sleep.

Being told that the girl had no favorites made her frown a little though, in thought she continued pulling Parvati deeper into the woods before finally stopping in some small grasses. Seeing leaves growing out, she stopped reaching down to the soil, beginning to use her nails to dig through the dirt slowly. "Alright then let's have something fancy then. How good are you in a fight?" She asked with a very wide and playful smile, as if gently teasing the woman with her question. "I'm going to need your strength to help get something tasty." She explained with a bright and happy expression.

 

Hearing Parvati's response, Korra knew the girl would react in exactly this way, it made her chuckle sweetly knowing that some simple opponent wouldn't be much of a match for Parvati. "Good! Then we'll make use of that for a fancy meal~" She explained happily as she finally dug up what she was looking for; Potatos! Though the skins were red, they were certainly potatos, Korra had known these areas for a long time, taking only a few so the others would continue to grow, thrive and propagate, she pulled up the front of her tribal skirt, revealing the thin fabric beneath without hesitating as she used her skirt as a basket to carry them.

Hearing Parvati misunderstand though, she giggled back shaking her head before trying to lift her free arm up to slide it around Parvati's shoulder to hang onto her. Close enough for her bare side to be felt against the other girl's, the sweet smell of pond lillies coming off of her from the closeness as she tried to explain with a smile. "Not a place, the meal itself will be fancy though-- I'm pretty good at this after so much time of being on my own, I've gotten pretty good at cooking." She teased with a mellow smile walking with Parvati a bit farther, instead she pointed away through the foliage with a smile. "There'll be a few boars that roam beyond these few trees, we only need one though, try to find one by itself and we can see how good you are right?" She playfully winked at Parvati playfully nudging her while hanging onto her gently.

 

Parvarti's surprise was a little amusing, with a warm grin she nodded back. "I will~ Buying a meal is nice and all, but I only ever do it when I'm alone." She explained knowing that she only went to get food at nice places to try and meet strangers, when she had someone sweet already with her, why waste the money? It was pointless in Korra's eyes and wasteful since she could just forage and hunt for a meal that was probably heartier then whatever portions were being served.

Seeing Parvati disappear into the foliage though, Korra flashed a warm grin and lifted her arms up for an incantation. The reason was simple, though she could cook on her own, doing so without Kirin was annoying and sometimes frustrating, her companion made a great many things a lot simpler. Starting fires with Kirin's breath, cooking with the scales from his body, everything was just a lot easier since she didn't have the conveniences of metal cookware because of how cumbersome it was in the dungeon. Instead, her's was all largely improvised.

By the time Parvati managed to slay the bore, Korra was followed by Kirin to where the hunting had taken place. The Majestic summoned creature glanced towards Parvati briefly, a vague conflict in it's gaze as it turned back to Korra once more silently judging it's summoner, but Korra didn't seem to notice this stare and continued forward happily. "You did it! That's perfect, now we can have good meat too. Do you know how to prep it properly?" She asked tilting her head wondering if the girl knew how to go about preparing the meat, as if worried she'd try without knowing though, Korra at least tried to explain.

"It needs to bleed out completely first from the neck, so pulling it up by one end so the cut is at the bottom will let it all pour out. We'll need some water too, but that's not too far right?" She asked glancing back to the draconian horse with a bright smile making her relationship with it clear. The scaled mount merely snorted in response though, it's duty at this point was holding onto a large collection of leaves that were diligently folded into one another forming a large rounded Wok or pot. The bottom was already singed and dried making it hard to the touch suggesting it was something Korra used often and brought with her in her bag whenever she went on adventures, though it wasn't her only piece of cookware, it was by far the simplest. "Do you think you can carry it? Or do you want Kirin's help?" She asked with a warm grin.

 

Korra nodded along, happy, pleased even as they began sorting their things out. "Perfect then, this'll be nice, I haven't had a chance to have a nice big dinner like this in a while." She admitted happily as she began to lead the way once more while Parvati was carrying the meat, she let Kirin carry the cook ware composed of leaves and his own scales while Korra led the way with her skirt flipped up. Occasionally she'd pick up some grasses, some greens here or there tossing them in as well. With a happy hum, she approached a small river bed, the water was running, showing that it was at least clean.

Bending over near by, she started scooping up a portion of water in the leaf and scale pot before turning towards Kirin who was already using it's horn to peel the bark and fibers from a tree. With a gentle poke of it's horns, it sparked a fire quickly on the sandy riverside letting the horse hold the water filled leaf pot over the flame with it's teeth without worry. The creature didn't seem to mind such a lazy chore, plopping it's body close to the fire without being bothered by the heat or ash, as a creature with draconian ancestry, heat and fire wasn't anything fascinating to it. It let the water get warmer as Korra began washing the greens and red potatoes in the river contented.

 

Parvati's pity was largely misplaced, Korra had both the reputation and the status to live indoors if she wanted. Her Familia would no doubt support her since she was the major provider for her God who was now wildly successful thanks to her reputation as a super rookie. Korra however liked the outdoors, liked sleeping with Kirin, liked not being constricted or restrained. It was freedom to Korra who looked at the wide open world as her own room and house.

Hearing Parvati's words about keeping the entrails though, Korra couldn't help chuckling a little. "I don't keep the stomach or intestines. Liver and heart though are always good if there's no worms." She explained contently knowing that the process of cleaning the entrails was rather cumbersome, though it was perhaps more polite and economical, Korra wasn't someone who was struggling enough to need every bite of meat these days. "If you want to, we can use it, but it's not my favorite part, usually i give it those parts to Kirin~" She offered with a smile, not wanting to throw it away if Parvati liked it after all, this would be a meal they're sharing.

Once the greens were washed though, she'd let the potatos boil happily, occasionally splitting or crushing some of the greens in her hands. When necessary she'd use her monster stone harvesting knife to cut into a few and cut neat rings from the green onions. She had a very delicate and dexterous touch when cutting them, clearly experienced, she was preparing and seasoning a the water even with an occasional sprinkle of white or black from small pouches at her waist letting the flavors marry slowly but surely before trying to widen the fire for when Parvati was done with the meat.

 

Korra nodded back to Parvati pleased that the girl understood, though her suspicions were quite accurate. Kirin despite being more of a horse in appearance and design still had the scales of a dragon as well as the alignment, it was capable of eating meat as any lizard or reptilian creature might. Kirin wasn't the least bothered by what it was given though, instead, the creature simply watched lazily while holding onto the boiling pot.

Hearing Parvati's question though, Korra flashed a homely smile as she answered. "The smaller bits, like tail, cheek meat and such we'll use for the soup mm? Some nice cuts of grilled meat and a stew dish sounds nice to me." She explained setting about dividing them up. Offering Parvati the larger bits she was talking about, everything from the flanks to the ribs she smiled brightly gesturing at her as she spoke. "Do you want to skewer them up then? Or would you rather we have something more like a grill? I'm easy." Korra offered with a sweet chuckle wanting it to suit Parvati's tastes after all.

Though she kept an eye on the stew and meat within, letting it round the leafy pot. With the meat added in the scent and flavor got richer spreading over the area little by little. Korra might not be a gourmand but she's cooked for a long time, since she was young she's had to figure out how to do this sort of thing on her own. As a small child back when Kirin was merely a small pony, she'd once used his back as the grill top, now though she was older and more resourceful allowing Kirin to have a lazier role in preparing food with her.

 

When Parvati glanced at Kirin, the steed's gaze returned a 'why me?' look, it was no doubt intelligent enough to follow the woman's actions. Kirin himself didn't have hands to offer anything, though it's siblings might. Though Korra gave a happy shake of her head, seeing the girl's eyes so excited was delightful as she turned away towards the woods. "There's bound to be a few good ones out there, just make sure to carve off the surfaces~" She teased knowing that Parvati would probably know that well enough anyway.

While the girl went off in search of things to use as skewers though Korra would sift through her greens and barks gathered mashing them up firmly with her hands. Sometimes grinding them together against a small collection of scales shed from Kirin to turn them into either pastes or powders. She would spend the time Parvati was gone rubbing those flavors into the meats or gently giving gesturing for Kirin to give the stew a quick shake to make sure the seasoning wasn't settling at the bottom of the pot. All in all it was shaping up to be a delightful dinner.

 

Korra chuckled happily seeing Parvati return, nodding clearly pleased as she welcomed back. "Perfect~ With this we'll be able to have something nice before bed." She said happily beginning to thrust the prepared skewers through the larger cuts to hang close to the fire. Burying the back ends in the dirt so they wouldn't fall in and ignite. The smell of roasting fats grew stronger from the skewers, but the splash of seasonings and spices that had been rubbed in made it that much more appetizing.

When Parvati looked up to see how the stew was doing, she'd see Kirin giving the large pot or bowl a shake again with it's teeth looking down at the boiling water within once more, the creature himself wasn't so much interested in the people food, it knew that it would be getting it's food from the pair after it's job of holding the pot was done. Seeing that everything was well set up though, Korra nodded contently watching everything cooking.

Letting nature run it's course and the food finish itself off with the fire, Korra tried to lean back against Parvati with a bright smile, relaxing and reclining with Lute in hand. If Parvati didn't shove her away, she'd try to find a comfortable place at the woman's chest to lean against as she plucked a few gentle notes. It was just a simple and lazy melody, but it was warm and resonated softly while Korra watched the fat drip down the skewers happily turning them occasionally so they wouldn't burn.