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Lawson moved onto the next workstation and his lips twitched ever so slightly as he watched Arya's attempt. He cleared his throat and moved a little closer to her. "Now Arya, that's cheating" he said with a small chuckle. "I assure you that if you hold your hand like I showed you, you will not cut your fingers off. And besides you have to keep stopping when you need to pull the fork out and move it down the vegetable."
He looked around at the rest of the students, "You are all doing a great job. Now I don't think I need to show you how to mix ingredients together so I want you all to take out your recipes now and we shall get started with cooking. You will find everything you need in the pantry at the back of the room and the refrigerators. I'm just going to help Arya out here a little more but if you need me then just yell out to me."
She was sloooowly working on cutting another uneven slice off the carrot when she heard someone clearing their throat. Arya looked up just in time to hear Sir Lawson's comment about her 'cheating', and spared him a small smirk.
"'s not cheating..." She didn't see it as cheating....more like playing it safe.
Sitting up straight, she glanced from her uneven slices to Lawson musing over his words.
"I don't mind stopping, besides I've grown accustomed to having five fingers on each hand..." She released the fork and held up her left hand and looked at it admiringly,
"It would be a shame to lose one over cutting carrots." Even though she did love carrots.
And what did he know? She had already cut six beautifully uneven pieces from the orange vegetable and she was proud of them. This
was the first time she had used a knife.
Hmm.....but would it really kill her to try it his way. He wouldn't allow her to do something that would harm her, would he? Nah.
Listening to him speak to the rest of the class, she sighed internally. Now everyone else got to work on thier recipes while she was stuck with the carrots. Arya picked up a small piece of carrot she had cut off and rolled it around in her hand.
"Can you show me how to cut it again?"