188 Idiotic Contrac (2/2)
”Great, I'll go and get Marie,” Valentina said enthusiastically while making a mad dash towards a side door in the kitchen. The side door led to Marie's building, it was full of people working around the clock dissecting the certain parts of the beast that are edible.
”Oh Valentina, what are you doing here? Don't you have someone over for an interview?” An old man asked from behind a workbench. Currently, the machines humanity possess aren't able to accurately dissect the beasts. However, with the slight assistance of human hands, the problem was quickly resolved, or at least minimised.
The old man was slightly hunched over his workbench, in front of him was an arm of a lizard, just its arm itself weighed a dozen kilograms. Then, once the limb was weight a conveyer belt dragged it along in a machine making a lot of noise. Since the evolution, the strength of muscles, bones, and even skin was increased severalfold, as such, humans had to respond similarly with their machines. Increasing the power behind their cuts.
”Indeed, however, I currently have more pressing matters at hand, where's Marie?” Valentina asked hurriedly.
The old man nodded. ”Hai, young ones are always in a rush nowadays. Anyway, Marie should currently be within her office; I don't remember seeing her ever come out, but I also don't see much going around in the building.” The old man stopped talking and continued with his work, looking through with the operation since mistakes could happen at any second when it came to dissecting limbs.
Valentina nodded before sprinting through the building and up some stairs at the very back of the entire building. At the top was a small room.
In the meantime, Lachlan and Phoebe were just left inside the kitchen. They looked towards Elena and Pedro who both shrugged their shoulders and tilted their heads, they hadn't been listening to anything going on, they were currently listening to some music as they danced around the kitchen. The two apprentices were doing the same, mainly before Elena and Pedro told them to.
Seeing everything running smoothly Lachlan and Phoebe both nodded at the same time before walking out and sitting on a table by the window. It was only one table's width away from Dakota, granted, the two didn't know who Dakota was since Valentina only gave them her name, nothing else.
”So, how about we order something and wait?” Lachlan asked, his arms resting on the table. They were currently just sitting there, which although was slightly fine with them in private, it was rather awkward in public. ”Then, we can talk about the next location for our business and whether or not we should start recruiting some students here.”
Phoebe nodded and responded sweetly. ”Alright, would you please pass over the menu?”
Lachlan grinned and handed over the menu which was filled to the brim with a variety of different choripáns, some spicy, some mild, some acidic, some salty. Just a wide variety of flavours, entirely decided on by what meat was used as well as the seasoning and additional ingredients.
A waitress came walking over, the waitress was one of the apprentice's close friend; hearing that her friend managed to get himself a job at Choripán Reyes she immediately asked if he could help her get one as well.
Standing by the tableside with a notepad in her hands she asked in a polite tone with a bright smile. ”Hello and welcome to Choripán Reyes, are you ready to order food as of now?”
”No need to wait I suppose,” Lachlan said with a slight shoulder shrug. ”Alright, I'll get the spicy choripán with a side of fries and garlic bread.”
The restaurant had a much larger menu than the food trucks, most of the dishes were things that Elena and Pedro had ideas of creating before but just never got hold of the ingredients. However, now that they were in a major city of America, the ingredients were easy to come by.
The restaurant also only had 3 sides: French fries, garlic bread, and onion rings. And, since the evolution, all the ingredients were slightly larger while being compacted with flavour. Lachlan almost knocked himself out from the flavour along of the three sides.
Simon, Flynn, Chloe, and himself were the ones to come up with the sides. Mainly due to the large variety of ingredients available around the food district was also due to nostalgia. Getting that taste of garlic bread, something they would order along with pizza back before the Earth evolved, it was just something magical.
”I'll have the mild choripán with garlic bread and onion rings,” Phoebe ordered kindly. The waitress nodded her head and walked off, swiftly writing down the order in short abbreviations. At that point, Marie and Valentina burst through the kitchen door and dashed for the seat opposite of Dakota who had already been served her first plate.
Dakota looked up to see two smallish girls staring at her eat, she knew both of them, however, they were currently being unusually weird. ”Is there something wrong? I don't have anything on my face, do I? If so, would you be able to get it off?”
”No there's nothing wrong with that, we're just here to try and renegotiate the terms of the contract,” Marie answered with closed eyes, her hands clasped as her elbows rested on the table. ”Hopefully you would be able to cooperate with us in a professional manner an make this whole process many times faster.”
Dakota showed visible signs of panic. ”What? You're not firing me already, right? That shouldn't be so, right? I didn't do anything wrong did I?” Food was her weakness, her desire to eat was something she couldn't stop, feeling that it was threatened her mind went into overdrive.