<div align="center">Kyle</div><br/>Amanda laughs and says, “Goodness gracious, no Giselle. You just relax, you’re our guest. Besides this MY kitchen and I don’t like anybody messing with my system. If you feel you really must work to earn the hospitality here we can find some other chores for you later. Now how about I just do up a couple pancakes today. I will make waffles tomorrow.” Working with practiced efficiency she gets three of the stove top burners going with their flames. She places frying pans on two and a square flat griddle on the third. She spreads bacon strips out in one pan and breaks eggs into the other adding salt, pepper, onion powder, and garlic powder lightly to the eggs.<br/><br/>Grabbing a boxed mix from a cupboard, Amanda eyeballs the amount of the mix she uses and the liquid she adds. She quickly mixes them together and checks the thickness of the mixture. Meeting her approval she then pours it out onto the griddle making four nearly perfect circles.<br/>With excitement quite evident in her voice she says, “Oh I love stories, please do tell me some of your history while I work.”<br/><br/>Kyle quickly gets dressed in blue jeans and a black Harley Davidson tee shirt. After putting on a pair of black Harley Davidson leather boots, he straps the sword to his hip like it is something he has been doing everyday for many years, it seems like the natural thing to do. He grabs his black motorcycle leather jacket and his coffee mug and heads back out of his room. He stops in the bathroom once, hangs the jacket on the door and sets his mug on the vanity. He pulls out an electric shaver and quickly removes the red stubble from his face.<br/><br/>Carrying his jacket and mug Kyle returns to the kitchen. After hanging the jacket on the back of his chair, he walks over to the coffee maker and refreshes his mug. Before returning to his chair he gives his mother a quick kiss on the check. “MMMM smells wonderful as usual, Mom.” He then gets two plates out of a cupboard, forks and butter knives out of a drawer. After placing one of each in front of Giselle and his own seat, he gets a bottle of imitation maple syrup from a cabinet and a tub of margarine from the frig. He places the bottle and tub on the table and sets down in his chair.<br/><br/>Scant seconds after Kyle sets down, Amanda places a plate full of steaming pancakes on the table. She then carries the pan with the eggs over and puts two sunny side up eggs on each of the empty plates, after which she splits the bacon equal between the plates as well. “Dig in.”