Raph jumped at the sound of her voice, hitting his head on a shelf. The thing about being a ninja was you were usually doing the sneaking up on people, not vice versa. Except if your brothers were practicing sneaking by sneaking up on you but Raph was typically better at getting them than they were at getting him.
Also, he was still on edge in general. The weirdness going on in his head had started to iron itself out, but he was in a strange world, in a strange and dangerous situation, had no idea what was going on with his family back home, and his introduction to this whole mess had been some creepy bad guy that read like he was from a creepy storybook and nearly getting vivisected by scientists.
To say he was a little cagey was an understatement. Especially since even the place that was "safe" that was he was supposed to stay at was literally in the middle of nowhere, inescapable, and surrounded by ice and snow.
Turtles belonged in the city not in farmhouses in the country and not in cozy giant lodges full of elves and toys on top of one of the ice caps.
The one good thing about this place, though, was the food. It was all good and there was a lot of it he'd never even seen before, given their limited food supplies back home. When you lived in a sewer and couldn't safely go into stores on the surface above, it was the ultimate food desert. Most of the time they stole what they did get that wasn't algae and worms and left behind a little money in its place (usually all pocket change that fell down sewer grates) or April sometimes brought down some groceries, but it wasn't exactly like they ever had enough to get all experimental.
Not like this stuff. Cakes and pies and and cookies confectioneries Raph had never even seen before. Which meant he was trying a little bit of everything.
There was nothing else to do. He'd already worked out for a couple hours in what passed for this place's gym.
"Testing for poison." He walked over on his knees to the table and nudged a clearly not picked at plate of marzipan in her direction. "Here, try these."
They were one of the only plates not picked at yet so it was clear the joke was that he was nudging the one towards her that had the highest chance of having poison in it.
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Also, he was still on edge in general. The weirdness going on in his head had started to iron itself out, but he was in a strange world, in a strange and dangerous situation, had no idea what was going on with his family back home, and his introduction to this whole mess had been some creepy bad guy that read like he was from a creepy storybook and nearly getting vivisected by scientists.
To say he was a little cagey was an understatement. Especially since even the place that was "safe" that was he was supposed to stay at was literally in the middle of nowhere, inescapable, and surrounded by ice and snow.
Turtles belonged in the city not in farmhouses in the country and not in cozy giant lodges full of elves and toys on top of one of the ice caps.
The one good thing about this place, though, was the food. It was all good and there was a lot of it he'd never even seen before, given their limited food supplies back home. When you lived in a sewer and couldn't safely go into stores on the surface above, it was the ultimate food desert. Most of the time they stole what they did get that wasn't algae and worms and left behind a little money in its place (usually all pocket change that fell down sewer grates) or April sometimes brought down some groceries, but it wasn't exactly like they ever had enough to get all experimental.
Not like this stuff. Cakes and pies and and cookies confectioneries Raph had never even seen before. Which meant he was trying a little bit of everything.
There was nothing else to do. He'd already worked out for a couple hours in what passed for this place's gym.
"Testing for poison." He walked over on his knees to the table and nudged a clearly not picked at plate of marzipan in her direction. "Here, try these."
They were one of the only plates not picked at yet so it was clear the joke was that he was nudging the one towards her that had the highest chance of having poison in it.