Cake & Departures

[kaolinandbone]

The present pile shrinks away to nothing, and as the last gifts are being opened, a massive white cake comes in the double-doors, so large that it takes four of the automatons to carry it and almost loses icing on the top sill of the door.

Lioncourt looks up from her present pile, and blinks.

"Oh, the cake!"

A sudden frown comes over her face, then she closes her eyes...

With a flash of light, an equally-massive cake suddenly occupies most of the present table, its spindly legs groaning under the weight of the platter as well as the unwrapped presents. Notably, this one is chocolate-brown.

With a flick of her hands, streams of porcelain leap up from amid the dirt of the garden, quickly forming into an additional table for the automatons to place their own heavy load onto. Unlike the wooden table for the gifts, it doesn't creak when the cake's deposited onto it.

"Sorry for the delay, everyone: these gifts have been so unexpectedly interesting that I've been delaying your opportunity to have cake! The one my servants just brought in is vanilla, a delicacy on my world: the one occupying the gift table is, ah, whatever wonderful flavour Esthfora's candies are. Both of them are excellent, but I must admit that the Esthfora cake is probably better. While I finish with the last few presents, please feel free to ask the servants for your desired flavor."

Comments

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[greatcomposure]

Cuddle, scritch. "Do you want to tell me what happened?"

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[lurkingkobold]

Cuddles and scritches help, and the kobold slowly, slowly relaxes. When she has the presence of mind to talk:

"Elf." She leans into Cordelia's side. "Am do of sit of elf." She seems to have entered a different phase of the fear reaction; she's trembling, now.

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[greatcomposure]

Cuddle scritch.

"Did the elf do anything bad besides be an elf?"

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[lurkingkobold]

The resulting distressed whine is fairly easy to interpret as 'no, but that's more than enough all by itself'.

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[greatcomposure]

Cordelia nods, and cuddles, and scritches.

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[lurkingkobold]

These are all good ideas; the kobold continues to calm down. Eventually she takes a deep breath and visibly pulls herself together, straightening up slightly and scanning the area around them.

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[greatcomposure]

Cordelia shifts to accomodate the movement, then resumes scritching.

"Better now?"

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[lurkingkobold]

The kobold nods, hesitantly, then pauses and sighs. "Elf do of worry."

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[greatcomposure]

Scritch. "What was the elf worried about?"

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[lurkingkobold]

The kobold looks just slightly guilty. "Kobold do of run, elf do of worry of run."

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[greatcomposure]

"Do you want me to go and talk to the elf for you?" she suggests.

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[lurkingkobold]

The kobold considers, sighs, pulls one of her ears, then looks up at Cordelia and nods. "Elf... nice? Elf? Am tiny of upset of worry."

She's also not too thrilled about sending Cordelia off to talk to a cannibal, but.

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[greatcomposure]

Cuddle, scritch. "I can try to reassure them."

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[lurkingkobold]

The kobold leans into Cordelia's hand, then points in the relevant direction. "Is of two of, is look of human."

Re: Cordelia and Lurker

[greatcomposure]

"Okay." Last scritch. "I'll go talk to them."

Cordelia gets up, leaving behind her empty cake plate, and goes looking for the... 'elf'.