"Close to it, at least. I'd love to cook with ingredients actually from the Ascendancy, but. Well. You know."
He gave a slight dismissive gesture then, since it hardly needed saying.
Aden probably could have found his way to the Ascendancy in this time. Falsified records, settled down, gotten married perhaps. That life wasn't for him though. Maybe it could have been, once upon a time. But after everything he'd been through, sitting still in one place was more likely to drive him insane than calm him down. Stepping away from the galaxy even in a time unlike his own was frightening. The thought of being caught unaware alone gave him night terrors even while he wasn't standing still.
Having a hand in matters outside the Ascendancy was better. He could protect his former home and he could protect himself. And since meeting Thrawn, he'd even gained a fellow Chiss to talk to to help alleviate the loneliness he felt from being separated from his people for all those various reasons.
The Chiss were his people, the Ascendancy his home, separated by nearly four thousand years from what he'd once known or no. Even though none other than Thrawn knew of his existence, he wanted to protect them in his own way. And working with Thrawn would help him with that, he felt.
"I had to visit a lot of markets to find similar vegetables, meats, and spices," He continued, keeping the light conversation up, "Experimenting with meat tenderizers, cooking times, temperatures and such too to produce a similar taste and mouthfeel without affecting the overall taste or quality."
He gestured for Thrawn to help himself to the food first then, while he uncorked one of the bottles of wine to pour himself a glass, "I'm very particular about my food, so I don't think you'll find it to be lacking."
Aden was a prideful person in general, but when it came to his cooking, he was even more so. Anything less than restaurant quality was not an acceptable result.
"And since the two of us are Chiss, I figured it'd be nice to have a meal like this. Whenever I've cooked anything even resembling Coperan food for humans they always start in on whether or not it's safe for them to consume, as though I don't take dietary needs and restrictions into account when I cook."
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He gave a slight dismissive gesture then, since it hardly needed saying.
Aden probably could have found his way to the Ascendancy in this time. Falsified records, settled down, gotten married perhaps. That life wasn't for him though. Maybe it could have been, once upon a time. But after everything he'd been through, sitting still in one place was more likely to drive him insane than calm him down. Stepping away from the galaxy even in a time unlike his own was frightening. The thought of being caught unaware alone gave him night terrors even while he wasn't standing still.
Having a hand in matters outside the Ascendancy was better. He could protect his former home and he could protect himself. And since meeting Thrawn, he'd even gained a fellow Chiss to talk to to help alleviate the loneliness he felt from being separated from his people for all those various reasons.
The Chiss were his people, the Ascendancy his home, separated by nearly four thousand years from what he'd once known or no. Even though none other than Thrawn knew of his existence, he wanted to protect them in his own way. And working with Thrawn would help him with that, he felt.
"I had to visit a lot of markets to find similar vegetables, meats, and spices," He continued, keeping the light conversation up, "Experimenting with meat tenderizers, cooking times, temperatures and such too to produce a similar taste and mouthfeel without affecting the overall taste or quality."
He gestured for Thrawn to help himself to the food first then, while he uncorked one of the bottles of wine to pour himself a glass, "I'm very particular about my food, so I don't think you'll find it to be lacking."
Aden was a prideful person in general, but when it came to his cooking, he was even more so. Anything less than restaurant quality was not an acceptable result.
"And since the two of us are Chiss, I figured it'd be nice to have a meal like this. Whenever I've cooked anything even resembling Coperan food for humans they always start in on whether or not it's safe for them to consume, as though I don't take dietary needs and restrictions into account when I cook."