At this point in time, I wasn't able to resist these sorry fucks' puppy eyes but I did make everyone else prepare everything themselves without me touching a knife. Afterwards, I even assigned a random-ass citizen to make my own version of meat stew so they'd be able to make the meal without me.
Granted there should be slight differences from one recipe to the next, but to take some of the magic out, anything and everything should taste the same as long as the same ingredients, procedures, etc were followed.
Some say it was love but sometimes it was just lard.
But yeah, the only group who didn't come back from our trip outside was Oscar's but that was because it'd take several hours to go back and forth the Marine base and then to this one.
Bartow commented, "They'll probably get back here first thing in the morning."
I turned to him, "How were things on your end though?"