24 - Rogue

[radiantwingedone]

Who: Duke and ANYONE
Where: Plaza
When: All week! Monday and Tuesday at intervvals but... just about any time day/night for the rest of the week o/
Style: Brackets, but if you want action, I WILL FOLLOW

[ So Sunday had been a particularly bad day for Duke, although it did end up with him eating a bit more than usual because wow, it should not have been that easy for him to get knocked down-

But monday morning felt fine. Mostly because he got hit with the curse, and once again was able to sprout wings and... ignore any normal needs. Although he did find it a little harder to talk this time... Perhaps he was a different sort of angel? Still had a crystal... Oh well.

This mostly left him with a great deal more hours than he had for the past weeks, and so the ordo-Zel house is swiftly filled with the smells of apples and baking... Because if he remembers the days right, then this is close to that gift-giving holiday and...

He can't really think of much.

The problem with a full twenty four hours to spend doing something is that he ends up with way more apple pies than he has people he knows. Everyone Duke knows the name of gets 1(one) Apple Pie with 1(one) slightly magicked pie tin. The tin will keep the pies at a nice warm temperature, and will do this again if they are cooked in the pie tin. Something to do with "absorbing and storing heat from the oven and giving it slowly back over time", the note explains. Don't make cold pies in this tin, obviously.

This does leave a great deal of pies left over, and after some thought, Duke takes them to the plaza and the coral. This was newcomer time, wasn't it?

Now there's a table with pies, notes attached explaining "keep-warm pie tins", and a small paper sign proclaiming them as free apple pies. Yup. ]

(OOC: FEEL FREE TO FIND HIM DELIVERING PIES TO CHARACTERS WHO HE KNOWS. Just mention "christmas" or something in your tag and I will know it is his gift-giving o/ ANYONE CAN GET PIES FROM THE PLAZA...

Duke is also a Symphonian Angel for this -)

Comments

[needsmoregreen]

[And the dying!]

I know not a lot of bad things has happened here but...just in case. [mumble mumble]

[radiantwingedone]

[ He accidentally made someone do that once- ]

.... Mostly that October.

[needsmoregreen]

[Yeah about that October...]

...What about it? What happened?

[radiantwingedone]

... The most recent one. Was.. of those returned living.

[ Just with addled senses and magic he couldn't work- ]

[needsmoregreen]

[ABOUT THAT.................]

O-Oh, I remember that. I...saw that some of the people were really sad when they woke up again after what happened. And...how it was really scary too.

[radiantwingedone]

[ o o o p s ?

Sorry Bianca, Duke might not have put two and two together- ]

Not-knowing often is, and hindsight painful.

[ Which Duke both knows and will know more about... ]

[needsmoregreen]

[......................................]

It sounds like you know from experience.

[radiantwingedone]

Wish-I-knews, wish-I-had-dones.

[needsmoregreen]

...

I'm sorry, I guess...I shouldn't have said that should I?

[radiantwingedone]

No need to; hold true for both here and home.

[needsmoregreen]

Then can I ask you something else?

[Pause]

Do you regret it? Coming here to Vatheon and meeting all the people here?

[radiantwingedone]

....?

[ He's... not sure. Give him a moment, he needs to think on that. If he goes strangely still, its because he doesn't need silly things like breathing this week...

Does he.. regret, meeting the people here? He isn't sure he's met enough of them to truly regret any of it - he feels moderately bad about Zelos, feels oddly comfortable-and-not around Zelda... Most of the rest is either indifference or curiosity. ]

... Do not think so.

[needsmoregreen]

[While it might seem random, Bianca was honestly curious. She met so many people here in Vatheon that she was starting to get a bit worried. There's no way that they could ever replace her friends but lately, she's starting to wonder if she'll ever return back home. If she doesn't, what will happen then? Will she eventually forget her time in Unova along with Cheren and Hilbert? That wasn't going to happen but the fact that she could be staying for such a long time was starting to scare her a bit. She made so many friends but for all of them to be stuck in a place like this...

And yet, she doesn't seem to regret it one bit]

Good, because I don't either. There's still a lot of things I'm learning about Vatheon but I'm glad that I got a chance to meet everyone here.

It's a little scary living in a place like this but...I don't regret staying here.

[Even if she died once before]

[radiantwingedone]

[ ... he doesn't really know what to say to that.

So here is just a little nod and - Bianca are you still holding onto him? ]

[needsmoregreen]

[Yes, she is, deal with it]

By the way, Duke, what are you going to do with these pies if you don't give them to enough people in time?

[radiantwingedone]

... The formula will keep them warm and fresh for a day or two. Newcomer time is near thus...

[ Free pies for new people? ]

[needsmoregreen]

Ah, so you're planning on giving it to them?

[Hm...actually]

You know, I was planning on baking something with Zelda. Sooo....we can put the pies and the cookies together! I'm not sure might it be much to make them feel welcome but it's something right?

[radiantwingedone]

... Zelda is currently sleeping, but can make use of the kitchen if you would still like to.

[ By sleeping he means in a coma.. but that's where he's been doing his cooking. ]

Oh whoops, my bad! @_@

[needsmoregreen]

Say...it sounds like you're good at baking if you're able to make all this these pies...

What did you do to make all of them anyway? I tried to make cookies before but I'm starting to think that I'm cursed! They always come out burnt or just barely eat them! They never turn out quite right!

I think she was planned to wake up for christmas but ended up waking for new years, s'okay!

[radiantwingedone]

... Watched them. When looked golden, waited a little longer then removed.

[ He's just... patient. Sometimes. ]

/rolls with whatever we have!

[needsmoregreen]

Ehhhhh? You have a lot more patience than I do!

Whenever the cookies aren't that hard, I try to turn up the temperature thinking that it would!

[Whine]

Then I'll just have to wait some more next time.

[radiantwingedone]

... Baking is unlike boiling water.

[ Turning up the heat on soup was fine. Bread or cookies or pies? not so. ]

[needsmoregreen]

Then I'll just have to wait won't I?

But it gets frustrating when it doesn't harden up and it's still like that in the same temperature...

[radiantwingedone]

Patience.

... and some softness is apparently sought after.

[needsmoregreen]

[Huh]

Don't cookies taste better if they're crunchy though? I had a soft one before but I didn't think it was too good...

[Of course, this was something one of her friends made and it turned out just as bad]

And aren't soft ones harder to make too? You need to time it just right and if it doesn't turn out right, it turns into a crunchy one!