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Human Cookery Books

Two hardcover volumes lie open on the kitchen counter, their illustrated pages showing alien and Earth ingredients prepared through fire and cutting tools. Shockeye traces pictures with a clawed finger, his posture shifting from derision to fascination as he points out methods that mirror Sontaran practices. The spines bear Earth-language titles he cannot pronounce, their cracked leather covers stiff with age and frequent handling.
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S22E8 · The Two Doctors Part 2
Sontarans dissect human culinary habits

Shockeye has discovered and spread open two hardcover human cookery books on the kitchen counter, using them as tangible evidence of human food practices. The books, featuring Chinese and Spanish recipes, serve both as an object of curiosity for Shockeye and as the focus of Chessene’s interrogation.

Before: The cookery books were hidden among the galley supplies or brought from another part of the station, unused and probably unexamined until Shockeye found them.
After: The books remain open on the counter, now stained with Shockeye’s greasy fingerprints and the condensation of the kitchen’s greasy atmosphere, serving as a bridge between the human world and their increasingly shared vision of systemic efficiency in cruelty.
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