Ali has been hard at work this afternoon, and the kitchen shows the signs: smudges of flour can be found on almost every surface, racks bearing
cookies and
candies and
cupcakes are stacked as high as possible, the intermittent whirs and beeps of mixers and timers make a sort of music, and there's a distinctly yeasty smell in the air. Well, yeasty
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The sight of the kitchen is enough to make him pause. There is a chaos here he could not even have imagined. And more baking than he would have thought humanly possible.
But... "Ice cream and pickles, my love?" he asks.
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"I love it. It's supposed to go on top of the cupcakes, but I just couldn't wait. Would you like some?" Because there's plenty more where that came from...
And the worst part? She's entirely sincere.
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"Ah, no, thank-you," he replies. He looks around the room. "You have been busy," he adds.
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"Yeah, I got hungry. Would you like some toffee?" It looks like perfectly normal toffee...if you ignore the red bits in. Maybe it's fruit?
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Hans examines the toffee and gives in to hope. "That sounds lovely, thank-you."
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Oh. Right. Pickles and ice cream. On cupcakes. She's busy "frosting" while she waits for him to eat the toffee.
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"So? What do you think?"
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"It is... different," he says.
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Hopeful Ali is hopeful! Maybe he'd be better off trying to cookies? At least they're normal.
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"How long have you been at this? I did not know one person could bake so much so quickly."
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"Um...a couple hours maybe? The goslings helped with the cookies, but they got bored part way through the toffee." Read: they didn't like the idea of bacon in candy so they ran away before they had to eat any, leaving her unsupervised (which explains the cupcakes).
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"Quite remarkable then," he says. He looks over the cookies and decides they seem safe. "The cookies look quite good."
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He's got to hate that phrase now.
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"Well, I see no harm in having one," he says, before picking one up and taking a bite out of it.
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"I hope they've cooled enough? They're sometimes a bit sticky right out of the oven."
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