5th Floor Common Room, Saturday Afternoon

[puppy_fair]

No more school for a few weeks could only mean one thing!

... Well, okay, for Zack it meant a few things. He had options, after all. He could take on some missions back home, but he was kind of iffy about that sort of thing after all of the excitement there last week. Or perhaps he could sneak back to at least take in the tree ceremony in Midgar, but even that kind of seemed like a bad idea right now. There were always things going on around here, though. Even if the relative peace and quiet seemed to be boring him out of his skull.

Clearly, on a Saturday morning with two weeks free from worry about classes, the best thing to do was to find himself a comfy place to sit, grab the remote control, and turn the TV to the most action-packed, violent show he could possibly find.

... Even if it meant that even the action movies were Christmas-themed right now.

[Open! Zack and I are totally in the same boat right now, sans mission trauma, so I'll be about all day being booored at you.]

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[puppy_fair]

"Awesome!" Yes, the ice cream was so totally forgotten in favor of bouncing toward the nearest wall to give it a curious prodding with one finger. "I bet we could probably chisel some out with our spoons, even. Do you think it tastes good with ice cream?"

Wait! What was he saying?

"Of course it does! It's a cookie!"

Much better!

[therewaslife]

"Most sweets tend to go well with one another," Bod said, getting to his feet a little slower and following Zach over to the wall. "That's the beauty of sweets. Combine any two and you've a great dessert."

[puppy_fair]

"Make it three or four, and if there's ice-cream involved, you've got an awesome sundae," Zack agreed, setting to work on chipping a chunk of cookie free from the wall.

... Carefully, because he was a good deal stronger than most boys his age, and he didn't want to accidentally stick his arm clear through and to the outside. They wanted cookies, not a draft.

[therewaslife]

Bod watched intently, still a little surprised that the walls made of gingerbread were holding up so well.

He'd kept a hold of the ice cream container and now, held it out towards Zach in case he wanted to combine them.

[puppy_fair]

It took a couple of moments of determined chipping, and a good many crumbs on the floor, but finally Zack was holding his prize: Two decently-sized chunks of gingerbread, which he was going to merrily plop into the ice cream bucket before him.

"Victory!"

It was sheer force of will that kept him from twirling his spoon like a baton, and nothing more.

[therewaslife]

"And the building is still standing," Bod said, glancing at the ceiling. "I guess that means I can try a piece as well."

[puppy_fair]

"Here, I'll get them!"

Zack Fair? Always willing to please!

"Big? Small? Thick? Thin? Should I take it from somewhere else, so that I'm not excavating my way all the way to the great outdoors?"

He was only asking a few questions, truly.

[therewaslife]

"Big but thin," Bod decided and then thought about the next question. "As for where the next piece comes from, that's something I'm not sure of. I've never carefully taken apart a gingerbread dorm."

[puppy_fair]

"I guess it would probably help if we knew how thick these walls actually were," Zack mused. "I'd hate for the ceiling to fall on our heads just because we wanted to try the cookie."

Clearly, the solution to this dilemma was to take two steps to the left before he started chiselling!

Brilliance!

[therewaslife]

"Well, if the ceiling does fall, perhaps it won't hurt all that much?" Bod guessed, looking up again. "If it's gingerbread, it can't be that hard. Perhaps it would just break upon contact with our heads."

[puppy_fair]

"And then we could eat our way out," Zack laughed, grinning. "It can't be all that bad. I mean, we're not on floor two, or anything!"

[therewaslife]

"We'd just have...an impressive view of the sixth floor if the ceilings fall in on us," he joked, chuckling. "A new skylight, perhaps?"

[puppy_fair]

"I bet we could totally make snow angels while we watch our action movie and eat our pizza!"

Hey, didn't that sound awesome?

[therewaslife]

"I've never made a snow angel," Bod admitted with a frown. "I've never had the chance. Doing it inside would be quite the coup, wouldn't it? Very unusual."

[puppy_fair]

"A pretty interesting way to start off making them," Zack laughed, shrugging. "I think everyone else would be jealous about it, you know?"

[therewaslife]

"It'd be a good story to tell," Bod agreed, touching a hand to the wall and marveling at how flimsy but strong the walls felt. "Strong food, this is."

[puppy_fair]

Zack nodded, chipping off a decent-sized chunk of cookie wall and then offering it to Bod.

"It's pretty sturdy cookie," he agreed. "Which is probably for the best. If it was a gooey chocolate chip right out of the oven, the ceiling would be sagging down on our heads right now, I bet."

It was kind of crazy how, after this long at Fandom High, saying things like that managed to almost seem normal.

[therewaslife]

"I think getting chocolate out of my hair would be difficult, shorter or not," Bod said, taking the piece of cookie and taking a bite. It was...surprisingly good for being a building's wall.

"I think I want the island to throw more quirks like this at us more often, he said and then finished the cookie quickly.

[puppy_fair]

"This totally beats some of the weird stuff it tosses our way," Zack agreed, setting straight to work mushing his cookie up into his ice cream.

That was how it was supposed to be eaten, right?

"I still don't really know anything about Christmas, but if this kind of cookie is a part of it, then this world is totally on the right track!"

Mmm, delicious wallcookie.

[therewaslife]

"I know very little about Christmas but I think this is one of the least confusing parts," he laughed, reaching to take another small chunk out of the wall.

"All of Christmas should be this easy," he decided with an actual smile now.

[puppy_fair]

"So agreed," decided Zack, before he started to shovel his gingerbread ice-cream goo into his mouth. "This, and presents, and movies with stuff blowing up on the TV."

[therewaslife]

"I prefer this sort of Christmas to the very religious, very confusing one," Bod decided, nodding. "I think keeping it simple like this is just what's needed."

[puppy_fair]

Oh, wow. Zack hadn't even known that it was a religious holiday! The things that he learned from people who actually were from Earth!

"Well, where's the fun in being confused all of the time, right?" He tilted his head thoughtfully. "Though, I can't really think of anything too religious about reindeer and dancing snowmen..."