The Preserve, Wednesday Afternoon

[glacial_witch]

There were things one might consider to be cookies at the reserve today. Might, if one had an iron stomach or an entire bottle of Tums handy to deal with them after managing to choke one down.

Merlin was faaar too chipper about them, though. Because he baked something. With Karla, but they managed it somehow

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Arrive and Mingle

[glacial_witch]

Warily eye the...lumps...that Karla and Merlin swear are cookies. They haven't moved or anything, so that's a good sign, yes?

The handwavycommotion around the second floor kitchen makes so much more sense today, doesn't it?

If Priestly is around there may be tasty sandwiches available for eating, as well as various kinds of teas and coffees.

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[trigons_child]

As she had promised Merlin, Raven had brought some tea. It was a blend of peppermint, licorice root, fennel seed, ginger, cardamon, and coriander that was designed to sooth the stomach. It was quite likely going to be needed.

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[glacial_witch]

"Are they good?" Karla asked merrily, skipping over to Alex. "We couldn't try them because we wanted to have enough for the Reserves. But there's probably enough if you want to have another."

Even though it was a hot summer day, even the flies were avoiding the plate of cookies. There would be plenty for Alex to have all the cookies she wanted.

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[glacial_witch]

Karla grinned, thrilled. Her cookies rated a 'not bad.' Astral!

"Well help yourself if there are any left over at the end of the meeting, okay? Excuse me!"

She had to run over to Merlin and let him know the verdict.

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[thatsamilkshake]

Francine would be...waaaaay back. Taking notes. But far enough away that she didn't spot the cookies on the table.

Not that she'd have realized they were cookies if she had.

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[life_inshadow]

"I haven't seen you since the sleeping thing," Tara remarked as she wandered back toward Francine. (How much of that was about avoiding the evil cookies was open to interpretation.) "H-how have you been?"

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[thatsamilkshake]

"Hi!" Francine looked up from her notebook - which mostly had pictures of cupcakes in it, shut up, it was the one thing she could draw and there weren't many notes she could take about sending magical messages - and smiled. "Okay. Well, way better since then. How about you?"

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[life_inshadow]

"Um, I was a potted violet but I got better?" Tara said with a little shrug that tried to get somewhere near nonchalant. "Other than that it's been ... yeah. Better since then. I can't believe my last class for the summer is tomorrow."

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[thatsamilkshake]

"Mine too. Driver's Ed." It took Francine a moment to remember how recently Tara had arrived here, given how much time seemed to have been packed into the last month or so. "Are you staying for regular school?"

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[life_inshadow]

"Same one," Tara confirmed. "You're the TA."

Which Francine had probably noticed, yes. Dork.

"And I think I am? I got a letter saying they'll extend my scholarship and my mom said I could so, uh ... I'm sticking around."

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[thatsamilkshake]

"Awesome!" Francine did that weird awkward little dance where you go to hug someone and then realize you don't know them nearly well enough to get away with that, so she settled for clapping. "You'll love it in winter. Sometimes it snows powdered sugar!"

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[life_inshadow]

Tara bounced a little. "Oooh. Do people go outside with waffles and catch it?"

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[thatsamilkshake]

Francine's eyes got big. "...I never thought of that! I just went out an opened my mouth."

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[life_inshadow]

"You probably didn't have someone tell you about it six months early," Tara smiled. "It, it gives you time to make plans."