Fifth Floor Common Room [evening]

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Rilla, after coming back from days of not remembering a thing, the horror, decided that an excellent way to make herself--and possibly the rest of the student body, judging by the pile of cookies stacking up nearby--feel better was to bake.

If only Rilla were better at baking.

Fortunately, another wicker basket from home was taking up most of a table and it was packed to the brim with moddable baked goods from Prince Edward Island. And those were guaranteed to be delicious.

Rilla's attempt at shortbread....not so much.

[OOC: Open!]

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[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"What exactly am I smelling?" Peter said, foregoing hellos for the moment.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Does it smell good?" Rilla asked plaintively.

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"I'm honestly not sure," Peter said. "Then again, just about everything smells better than it should right now."

Ahhh, the joy of not being in a rotting, damp underwater hellhole.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Well, they're supposed to be shortbread," Rilla said, peering at the latest batch anxiously, "and I triple checked the recipe as I made them."

She smiled. "There's also a basketful of goodies from home if you'd rather not risk it."

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"I'll risk it," Peter said, reaching for a bit of shortbread.

He nibbled, and put on a brave face.

"Well, it's... shortbread."

[trigons_child]

Raven was still giddy from all the healing she'd done plus having her soul intact again, so she was in a good mood as she wandered into the common room. "Rilla!" she said, pleased. "I can cross you off my list."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"You have a list?" asked poor clueless Rilla.

[trigons_child]

"The people who were missing," Raven said, taking out her copy of the list she'd posted in the lobby and scratching Rilla's name out. "There are not many left unaccounted for, but enough that I am still worried." Like Hannibal, for one.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"I just popped back out by the café," Rilla said. "It was terribly confusing. I had no idea it was Sunday! I'd missed church!"

Truly the greatest tragedy of the weekend.

[trigons_child]

"You would not have been able to go even if you had been here," Raven said gravely. "The church was gone, and Castiel, Angel of the Lord, with it."

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"You're keeping a list?" Peter said, raising an eyebrow.

Again with the lack of hellos. "Are you checking it twice?"

[trigons_child]

"I have been checking it very thoroughly to make sure none of Fandom are still missing," Raven said with a nod, not understanding the reference, of course. "I made a list of who had gone missing, but I have not verified everyone has returned."

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Peter said. "That's..." He didn't have a snarky line. He was a bit at a loss. "Really nice. You really don't have a selfish bone in your body, do you?"

[isntabitpretty.livejournal.com]

"I don't suppose," Sara asked from the doorway, "you learned all the secrets of baking while you were away?"

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Sara!" Rilla exclaimed. "I am so glad to see you!"

She looked disappointed. "And no."

[isntabitpretty.livejournal.com]

"You are all right, aren't you?" cried Sara, hurrying across the room as quickly as was dignified. "Oh, it was absolutely dreadful while you were gone; it's probably all for the best that you missed it."

The second answer, though, had her eyeing the cookies dubiously.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"There's strawberry preserves from home that save them," Rilla assured her, "or at least cover up what I did. And what did I miss? Was it quite thrilling? Or horrifying? Or both?"

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

James was making his way up to the roof and paused when he smelled something delicious.

"Are these for everyone?"

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Indeed they are," Rilla trilled. "Enjoy!"

It might be a little hard to enjoy them. Rilla had forgotten to add salt.

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

As long as they were not deadly, he would not much care after this weekend. "I will," he said, eating one.

Not the best thing, no. He would stop at three.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

She beamed at him. "I'm so glad you like them," she said. "I'm still working on being a decent cook."

She had a ways to go.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately for Firekeeper, unless the problem had to do with overcooking something, it was difficult to tell there might be something wrong with baked goods from smell alone.

And it was the smell that drew her and Blind Seer upstairs to the fifth floor tonight.

"Hello!" she greeted. "For sharing?" she asked hopefully.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"For sharing," Rilla confirmed, shooting the wolf a "why yes, I'm totally fine with this" smile.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

The wolf, for his part, simply twitched his ears at Rilla in a way that was meant to convey amusement, before finding a comfortable spot on the floor to curl up on.

Firekeeper snagged a cookie and took a bite, chewing thoughtfully as she tried to figure out why it didn't taste quite... right.

"Did something strange happen to you these past days as well?" It had been quite disconcerting to arrive back at the dorms after spending what she thought was a night in the Preserve to find that several days had passed.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Rilla nodded, eyes wide. "I don't remember a thing from Friday afternoon until Sunday."