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The thirty garlic clove chicken takes fucking forever to make.

Taako shoots off sparkling fireworks, advertises T-shirts, and takes audience questions for a good few hours until the oven dings. He really didn’t think this through. Next time he makes a dish like this, he’ll have to get Sazed to come up with some entertainment for the wait.

When the oven dings, the audience cheers. Taako pulls it out, transmutes blueberries into elderberries for the garnish, and takes the first bite. Just to be an ass, he does it slowly, making sure to communicate his delight at the taste to the impatient audience.

Finally, he starts portioning it out to be served, feeling a little dizzy. He figures he’s got some flu manifesting, and decides to ignore it. That is, until he’s handing out the third plate and it feels far too heavy, and he falls.

Taako wakes up a few times, on and off, in a stranger’s bed. He’s disoriented and ill, and his worried caretaker (of whom he can’t quite retain the name) says something about it getting worse before it gets better. Later, people are arguing in another room, and it feels too loud but also completely indistinct.

Then, he dies.

He doesn’t quite realize he’s dead, at first. He just wakes up with a clear mind, suddenly. Wonders how he got so sick. Poisoning, maybe? Was it Sazed? Sazed kind of sucked. Lup would’ve told him to get rid of that guy years ago. Lup would’ve–

Lup.

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