In more recent days, Lenneth had steadily come to the realization that she'd never cooked a day in her life. In fact, Platina hadn't done any cooking either. The lack of food, in the home of the Valkyrie's human form, had forced Platina's mother to do the cooking so that no food was wasted. She could only recall that the meals were terrible but at
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Visits to the kitchen by packs of curious Shoggies were frequent occurrences, and today was no different- many of the Hogwarts Shoggies had become fascinated with cooking, or at least what they deduced cooking to be. As Shoggies are exceptionally dumb, and also capable of consuming anything, their deductions were questionable. They of course never considered the fact that creatures who looked very much like moving piles of random organs might not be very welcome in a place of food preparation.
The Shoggies who arrived as Lenneth was extinguishing herself were also determined to try some cooking of their own. They squelched towards one of the many ovens, choosing one near Lenneth- each was carrying a few things in tentacle-like pseudopods, 'ingredients' scavanged from various parts of the castle and its surroundings. "Hi there!" piped Shoggy 11, who lead the amorphous, many-eyed pack. "What are you making?" asked Shoggy 6.6, to which Shoggy 15 added "It smells sooooo good." "We're going to make a sooo cool pie," Shoggy 31 informed Lenneth, as the Shoggies all added their 'ingredients' to a pile near the oven. These consisted of a hunk of unidentifiable meat with some fur still stuck to it, several smallish squashed acromantulas, a can of generic cola, a half-empty package of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, a hunk of extremely moldy bread, a bar of scented soap, some old plastic bags, an assortment of glass shards, a can of squeezy cheese, and a box of aluminum foil. This box was placed slightly apart from the rest, and was labled "FOR HATS". Most all of the Shoggies had bizarrely ornate aluminum foil hats balanced somewhere upon their shapeless bodies.
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"I was trying to make cookies. I don't think they came out very good though."
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"I'm Shoggy!" Shoggy 11 told Lenneth, pointing out the others with temporary pseudopods and introducing them in turn. "And that's Shoggy, and that's Shoggy, and that's Shoggy, and that's Shoggy. . ." Each of the others piped "Hi!" when introduced, and kept on with whatever they were doing. Shoggy 6.6 had begun to layer the glass shards atop a plastic bag, while Shoggy 15 went about coating each shard with a bit of the squeezy cheese. Shoggy 26 1/2 had been searching through the kitchen utensils, and now advanced upon the chunk of meat with a mallet. Shoggy 31 was also rooting through the kitchen, and, had gathered up a cheese grater, a spatula, and a very large cleaver. Shoggy 22 had acquired a large bowl and an ancient-looking hand-cranked mixer. Others were sorting through the 'ingredients' pile, making smaller piles of the assorted items, while others looked through the kitchen for new ingredients to mix into their 'pie'.
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"If the cookies really look good to you, you're welcome to have them." She wasn't going to. And she doubted many other people would even try here.
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"Sooo cool!" The Shoggies all dropped whatever they were doing and converged upon the burnt cookies with impressive speed for squelching piles of unstable organs. "They do look sooo good, thank you Mastress," piped Shoggy 15.
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