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[takethat]

[A flour-covered Phoenix may be found in the kitchen bright and early on March 7, adorned with a yellow and white striped apron, and merrily rolling out cookie dough. His journal is open nearby, and he's talking over it.]

So, it's Purim! Or at least, it will be tonight. I don't think it counts for very much here, since the castle seems to be pretty choosy about what holidays it celebrates, but I wanted to make hamantaschen anyway. So, uh, anybody who wants some, please let me know!

[There's a delay as he's cutting out circles from the dough, and then a splatter of prune filling on the journal.]

...if you don't know what they are, they're cookies with fruit filling in the center. These are prune flavored. Don't knock it til you try it, but I can make apricot, too.

[And with that, he goes back to making his cookies, plopping the filling into the center of each one and pinching the cookies into triangle shapes. When finished, they'll look a bit like this, though considerably less perfectly-shaped. A couple are definitely still round.]



Hey, uh--Maya? I need to ask you something.

[A lengthy pause]

...what's going on with you and that Wheatley guy?





I made you a batch of hamantaschen. Lots of different flavors. I'm in the kitchen if you want to come get them, or I can bring them to you later.



((ooc: Jewish!Phoenix is headcanon, not actual canon. The more you know.))

Comments

[gevurah]

[ She's going to take a bite out of one. It's kind of hot still, so she slows down on the chewing before swallowing. ]

It's good.

[takethat]

Thanks. I swear they're better when I make them back home. This place isn't conducive to cookies, or something.

[gevurah]

Don't sweat it. I'm not much of a cook myself.

[takethat]

I guess I only know how to make a few things, but better to make a few things well than a bunch of things badly, right?

[gevurah]

It's a shame whatever you learn or improve on here gets forgotten once you're sent back.

[takethat]

Is that so? How do you know?

[gevurah]

People have been temporarily back in their respective worlds. They never recall Paradisa while they're there.

[takethat]

You know, now that you mention it, someone once told me I'd been here before, but I definitely don't remember that at all.

[gevurah]

Something changed during the winter; some people returned with memories, but no one knows why or how. It's not even a guarantee.

[takethat]

I was hearing about that around the holidays, but I didn't really understand what people were saying about it. This place is really very messed up, isn't it?

[gevurah]

Pretty much.

[takethat]

Oh well... it'd be boring if I just understood everything going on here all the time.

[gevurah]

But frustrating when you don't.