Sakura pulled a drink off the rack. It was a pure white yoghurt which she passed to Kate who looked at it like the sludge it was before Sakura growled and grabbed Kate's hand forcing her to hold it. She had clearly guessed that Kate had every intention of putting it back so she could get one of the colourful ones.
"Okay, I want in on the inside joke." Genevieve complained.
"I'm her seeing-eye dog."
"Oh, because of the Zen blindness." Maddy said.
Her baritone ass collected one of the multi coloured glasses, hers was actually a milkshake, it looked like it consisted of bran flakes and fruit. Gen took an entirely blue shake which had blue brand protein bars sticking out.
The focus came back to Kate who was still being forced to eat.
"Good, now you listening, you eat, I talk." Sakura said, Kate grinned at that, "that's a steroid mix, testosterone, insulin, cortisol and growth hormone cocktail that'll work for your recover and restart your day because tomorrow is going to be harder. You Kate are a leader. I know you are. You have to be a lot of things to be a good leader. One of the things you have to be right now is a young leader, that means being a dictator. Because the future is yours and the only way that prove true is if you act well and take power. It means being a general and nothing takes up your whole mind like being a general. Gen?"
Genevieve was already half way through her food, her mouth wide open as she had folded the protein bar and was actively stuffing it down her throat without so much as chewing. There were snakes that dreamed of being abele to unhinge their jaws so well with those unnaturally full lips, wasn't horrifying to see.
'Better not awaken anything.' Kate thought.
Gen smiled, putting her hand up. "Only way to live".
She filled her mouth a second time.
Gen put her hand up and Kate put in her first spoonful, it was… better than expected. Oh still tasted like yoghurt, like medicine and goodness she detected every little thing battling to just be the worst inside of her mouth.
Muskets of bitter fire on her tongue, cannons of sliminess bursting eldritch horrors to her gullet blasting her gag reflexes open. And out of nowhere… banana. At first flavourient then the actual thing. It was like a pleasant rain over a field of corpses. It landed in her gut like coals burning away inside her, warming already burning joints.
Genevieve finished chewing A second mouthful and took a happy breath.
"Okay. Before get the wrong idea. She literally means being a general. We all have nicknames, because of it. I am French so I went for Emperor Napoleon. Maddy's is Hannibal Barca. And Sakura is a strange combination of Japanese generals. But we leave her to it."
"You don't change yourself to match the person tho" Madison said, that voice…
"You are yourself, and those names are to inspire you to be more of yourself. But that's stuff you earn. Many start small."
"And me?" Kate asked.
Sakura made a show of kissing her fingers and pressing them to Kate's mouth. Kate rolled her eyes.
"You, are what I will call you tonight." The way Sakura said that was so shockingly sultry that Kate nearly choked on her food.
What on earth was she supposed to feel about that!? The other girls burst out laughing, even Genevieve.
"Okay, those implications aside." Maddy said with a laugh. "You'll work your way up and then you will be able to move on to other means."
Kate pulled Sakura's hand away.
"But what does the have to do with being a general?"
"Eat." Genevieve said. "The part that involves reaching your Zennith is all about the path to domination, leadership and victory. To give yourself up and let others lift you even higher. And that is where you get your high. Which brings up the question can you reach that high Kate?"