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After Eli and Carlos went hunting, | turned to Maddie who had just returned from the garden. “Can you begin to make a list of items we need to stock the pantry. Eli and Carlos are going back out for meat, but | know we're lacking in condiments and I’m sure many other things.”
“Of course, Luna. Happy to help.”
| begin to interview the new omegas that are streaming into the kitchen. Those that had no cooking experience but have some cleaning experience are now joining us to get assignments in the packhouse.
| start with kitchen and dining room clean up, adding the community bathrooms on this floor to the list. | find someone that was a Lead Omega in her previous pack and set her up with a helper to go room by room in the packhouse to find out how many people are in each room and what supplies they need and cleaning rounds they would like.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtAs with the pantry, the linens and towel supply are dreadfully low. We'll have to set up a rotation of washing linens and towels so that we don’t run out. | assign another person to begin working on what that rotation will look like. Then we get started on making sure that all the currently unused towels and linens are clean, as many are just in a pile on the floor.
| have Maddie add cleaning supplies to our list of needed items. We're making good progress and I’m a sweaty but happy mess when Eli, Carlos and another man | don’t recognize cback from their hunt.
Once | get the assignments made for cleaning the fresh animals brought in and take a moment to tease my mate, | send him on his way.
| pull Cammy and another omega with extensive, but different cooking experience over and begin talking about the meals we can cook with the meat that we have. We cup with meal plans for the next week and | ensure that the amount of meat that will be fed to the pack members will increase. We have Maddie add the missing ingredients to her list as we go.
“Luna, if | may,” Autumn, the omega with cooking experience says. Her sister, Summer, is the Lead Omega | sent to inventory the rooms. They are from the spack and ran together to escape.
“We could get egg-laying hens and build a coop near the packhouse. The women that look after the garden could look after the hens and young pups always like to collect eggs. If we get them at various ages, then we’d have a consistent flow of
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egg layers. And if we decided that we had enough eggs at any point, we could always let the chicks grow and have more of our own egg layers or decide we want sas meat. It would be another way that we could be self-sufficient.”
“Excellent idea.” | have Maddie make a note to research this. Without a computer, it may be difficult unless there are slocal hen sellers.
As dinner tgets closer, | have the omegas begin plating food, while others set the tables for dinner. As we are about done, a couple of women cin carrying small baskets of flowers.
“Hello Luna. I’m Victoria and this is lvy. We work with Maddie in the garden, and she told us what you are doing here. We're so excited to finally have structured mealtimes that we thought it would be nice to have centerpieces for the tables to celebrate, so we picked sflowers from the forest to put at the tables.”
“They're perfect. Thank you both.” We place them on the tables, just as the warriors begin coming in. They immediately see the tables set and stop, looking
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmat me. “Have a seat everyone. Tonight, we are having pulled pork, roasted rosemary potatoes and steamed spinach for dinner.”
Everyone looks excited as they sit. | mind link Eli to cjoin us. There are more people tonight than there were last night. Word has spread that there is food available or perhaps they just want to see their Alpha and Luna. Either way, we have to set up additional, makeshift tables to seat everyone.
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| make sure that all the omegas are seated and have food, including the ones that are still working on stripping the carcasses. Once everyone is eating, | find my place next to Eli. He looks atwith awe and pride.
“In one day, you have managed to make this pack feel like a home. | don’t know how you did it, but as usual, | am amazed and awed by you, my little mate.”
The mood tonight in the dining room is considerably different than last night. While almost everyone seemed happy to have Eli back yesterday, there was a sense of anxiety of the unknown. Today there is a peaceful feeling around the room with a lot of happy chatter and laughter.
Several pack members make a point to cover and thank us, or just say hi, wanting to get to know us better. When they are done, everyone disperses, going back to their work or to their homes to rest for the evening. Eli goes back upstairs to work on the patrol schedule, and | make sure everyone is set with their assignments in the kitchen and tomorrow's cooking and cleaning before heading upstairs to join Eli.
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