RD16, log + orb!

[dailybread]

Characters: Peeta Mellark and you.
Open? Yes.
Where: Market quarter of Schwanheim, in a previously vacant storefront.
When: Early afternoon, RD 16
What: Peeta is opening a bakery and needs some taste-testers.
Warnings: None. Schmoopyness?

[Peeta's got flour in his hair, arms covered in dough, and a smile on his face. The crackling of a stove can be heard, if you listen closely; the locale itself is bright and sunny.]

Rue, you wanted cake, didn't you? And anyone else can come by, if you want. There's plenty to go around.



The castle dressmakers were...pushy. No worse than the stylists at the capital, but Faolan was right--they wouldn't give him pants. What he got wasn't so bad, though, if he rolled up the sleeves, although the shoes weren't very comfortable.

Buying a building with some of his gold (the amount of which was staggering; his jaw dropped when the treasurer had opened his vault in the castle) was easy. The shop was spacious, clean and well-lit with large windows to allow sun to spill in over the floor. The stove was nice, too; an old one, fed with wood. Peeta would have chopped the logs himself, but he hadn't been able to get his hands on an axe; the townspeople had insisted it was unbecoming of a princess to do manual labor.

So he'd bought some of those, too, along with three sacks of flour, raw cocoa, milk, butter, sugar, and a myriad of other ingredients he'd only read about. Currently in the oven was a batch of sweet buns--Katniss liked them; the smell called to mind her dark braid and bright, calculating eyes--and he was whisking together batter for a chocolate cake while he waited.


[[OOC: Just let me know in your subject line whether you're talking back to him on the orb or physically showing up. :3]]

Comments

ORB FIRST BECAUSE MANNERS also sorry I'm so late :(

[tatra]

Oh my! I didn't know you baked.

Don't worry about it my laff :3

[dailybread]

I don't think we've met. I'm Peeta Mellark.

[tatra]

I am Princess Tatra of Chizeta. It's a pleasure to meet you, Peeta Mellark.

[dailybread]

You can just call me Peeta.

[tatra]

Peeta then. What sort of cake are you making?

[dailybread]

Chocolate. It's for a friend.

[tatra]

That's very kind of you.

[dailybread]

She deserves it.

[He'll bake her anything she wants, whenever she wants.]

[tatra]

Is it someone you knew back home? I've had rather mixed luck with that myself.

[dailybread]

Yeah. Have you met Rue?

[tatra]

I believe so. The young girl who arrived recently? We spoke about tea.

[dailybread]

Eyes like a doe? Yeah, that's Rue.

[It's still so strange to see her here. A little unsettling, really.] Does she like tea?

[tatra]

She was very interested in its medicinal properties. I believe she said her mother practices medicine.

[dailybread]

[Like Katniss' mother. The thought makes his stomach twist a little. He pushes it away.]

Do you think I could buy some tea from you to serve here with my pastries?

[tatra]

That might be rather difficult, as the castle kitchens provide it to me free of charge. But certainly I could bring you some!

[dailybread]

That would be really nice, if it's not too much trouble.

[Even though he's opening a no-charge bakery himself, the concept of free food is still a little foreign to him.] Are you sure it's okay? I have money.

[tatra]

Of course! I have far more money than I have anything to spend it on. I couldn't possibly take any of yours.

Where shall I bring it?

[dailybread]

We're in the same position, then.

I'm in the market quarter, across from what looks like a seamstress.

[tatra]

It's a little silly, isn't it? [ She giggles. Of course she's used to having money, but considering they're strangers in a foreign land the idea of being ridiculously wealthy is, well, ridiculous. ]

I'll be right over with a nice selection.

[dailybread]

It's more money than I could use in a lifetime.

[Possibly more than what he and Katniss won in the games combined.]

Thank you, Tatra.