You hafta do the first one the right way. Then you can use powers on the next ones.
[ She smiles indulgently at him when she finishes her simple sketching, then turns the pumpkin on its side. She grabs a long, serrated knife and stands to compensate for her height, holding the pumpkin down with one hand as she cuts a hole in the top of it. ]
Now we open it up and scoop out all the goop inside. [ When she's done cutting, she uses the stem as a handle, opening the pumpkin to reveal the stringy, seed-filled inside. With a bowl at her side, she takes one of the large serving spoons and begins to scrape along the inside walls to loosen the pulp. ] We save the insides. Well, at least the seeds, we'll pick 'em out later, then we roast 'em. Back home, we used all the guts to make pie, but I don't know how to turn it from this to pumpkin pie fillin'. Not off the top of my head, anyway. So just the seeds this time.
[ As she keeps scraping, she tilts her head, thinking. ] So we had a couple real big holidays, but I'd say Halloween is maybe like, the second most popular of 'em. Hundreds of years ago, it used to be part of a religious holiday, but over time, people sorta combined it with pagan festivals until it was more of its own thing. Well, most of our religious holidays did that, stole a bunch from pagans. But Halloween especially. In America, where I'm from, Halloween is a big holiday 'cause there's so much you can do with it. Costumes and parties and decorations, Americans love any excuse to go all out, and since Halloween doesn't really have the religious part anymore, it's the only holiday that's really just about havin' fun.
[ She sits back down and turns the pumpkin around once it's empty, so that she can see where she's carving. ]
'Course, costumes are the most important part of the whole shebang. Why, you wanna do somethin' different?
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[ She smiles indulgently at him when she finishes her simple sketching, then turns the pumpkin on its side. She grabs a long, serrated knife and stands to compensate for her height, holding the pumpkin down with one hand as she cuts a hole in the top of it. ]
Now we open it up and scoop out all the goop inside. [ When she's done cutting, she uses the stem as a handle, opening the pumpkin to reveal the stringy, seed-filled inside. With a bowl at her side, she takes one of the large serving spoons and begins to scrape along the inside walls to loosen the pulp. ] We save the insides. Well, at least the seeds, we'll pick 'em out later, then we roast 'em. Back home, we used all the guts to make pie, but I don't know how to turn it from this to pumpkin pie fillin'. Not off the top of my head, anyway. So just the seeds this time.
[ As she keeps scraping, she tilts her head, thinking. ] So we had a couple real big holidays, but I'd say Halloween is maybe like, the second most popular of 'em. Hundreds of years ago, it used to be part of a religious holiday, but over time, people sorta combined it with pagan festivals until it was more of its own thing. Well, most of our religious holidays did that, stole a bunch from pagans. But Halloween especially. In America, where I'm from, Halloween is a big holiday 'cause there's so much you can do with it. Costumes and parties and decorations, Americans love any excuse to go all out, and since Halloween doesn't really have the religious part anymore, it's the only holiday that's really just about havin' fun.
[ She sits back down and turns the pumpkin around once it's empty, so that she can see where she's carving. ]
'Course, costumes are the most important part of the whole shebang. Why, you wanna do somethin' different?