[Simple as it is and as much as it isn't technically being cooked, Ryder watches him work with such rapt attention and wonder it's as if he's doing magic. For someone that largely lived out of a microwave, it basically is. There are people out there that really use those spices! Wow! She knows one! Even more wow!!]

Are you kidding? This -- is amazing! [He made it special for her! In the dang apocalypse! She can't get over the fact that real fucking spices happened today!

She has her own spoon that's smaller and that she thinks is supposed to be for soup if you were some kind of asshole that believed in the law of silverware. Ryder's dipped it into the concoction before she reaches to support the bowl, then quickly shoves it into her mouth to shush to her hungry stomach. Angels sing. She hears applause. She's pretty sure she made some kind of embarrassing noise in her delight.]

Oh my god, Teo. You can fucking cook! [Damn!!!] Hold on -- I know it doesn't -- make you not hungry, but can you taste things? You need to -- try it!

[It's the best thing since forever! Also despite her insistence, she's too busy making her way through more spoonfuls to force one onto him immediately.]