Fourth floor common room, Wednesday morning

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Rapunzel was feeling pretty good this morning, and as part of that she was trying to get back into a regular routine. She'd gotten up early, tidied up her room, and almost immediately headed to the common room where she'd made a huge batch of muffins.

And now that said muffins were in the oven (and smelled positively delicious as they were baking!) Rapunzel had a moment to sit down and brush her hair. A few moments.

A lot of moments.

This could take a while.

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Dolf lived on the fifth floor, which necessitated walking past the fourth on his way down. He froze halfway down the fifth-to-fourth stairs. What was that smell?

And so Rapunzel would find a blond Dutch boy following his nose into the common room. "Are you baking?"

Yes, that would be a sensible conclusion, Rudolf.

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Rapunzel might well find herself making a lot of new friends today.

"Ohmygosh, are those muffins?" Miley gushed. "They smell amazing. What club do I have to join to earn some of those?"

She thought she'd figured out the baking ethics, yes.

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"I hope so," Miley laughed. "Or else they've invented some kind of really realistic air-freshener."

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Rapunzel looked up, brush frozen in mid-stroke. "Um... yes?" That was okay, wasn't it? She wasn't going to get in trouble, was she?

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"It's possible," Dolf argued. "There are people from the future here." He smiled at... the girl whose name he didn't know, but whose voice sounded vaguely familiar.

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"Um... club?" Rapunzel asked, eyes blinking rapidly as she tried to process the question.

"I... don't know?"

No one had told her!

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"Are they done yet?" Dolf wanted to know.

And then laughed at himself, embarrassed. "Sorry. Hungry."

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Miley smiled back, pointing out, "Yeah, but it'd be kind of cruel to make a scent that just makes you want to eat junk food." Pause. "Then again, my shampoo pretty much smells like apple pie."

Yes, Miley. Technological advancements were everywhere.

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"Oh, good," Miley said, relieved, flopping down on a couch. "Most people keep making delicious cupcakes and they'll only give you them if you join their club. I say, just share with everyone, you know?"

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"I saw somewhere that sometimes they spray it to make people like houses more," Dolf said, thoughtfully. "You know, ones that the real estate agents want you to buy."

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"Huh," Miley said thoughtfully. "That's really smart, actually. I'd probably be fooled."

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"It's like an evil trap," Dolf agreed. "But luckily, we have actual cookies." Muffins, Dolf. The word you were looking for was muffins.

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Rosella had grown up with quite the nose to tell when sweets were baking in a kitchen even if she was all the way on the other side of the castle, and so it was really no surprise that she was lead by aroma toward the fourth floor. She came in through the door taking in a deep, deep breath and letting out an appreciative sigh. "Those smell heavenly," she said happily, offering her compliments to figure out who might be the chef.

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"Muffins," Miley corrected him, peering down at the oven for conformation of this fact. "Cookies are usually more... flat."

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"Oh, right, sorry," Dolf said, following her line of sight. "Not really from around here."

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"Those smell incredible," Tara said, as she wandered into the common room and blinked at the ... hair.

Lots of hair.

"Hi!"

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"Oh, no, don't worry about it," she said with a smile, waving a hand. "Where're you from? I think I recognize the accent."

Because Hannah Montana toured EVERYWHERE.

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Poor Miley if Dolf had turned out to be from a completely different world or something.

But he didn't, so he answered with an easy, "The Netherlands." Beat. "It's in Europe." Just in case she needed that clarified.

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Pause. Lip-bite.

"Is that the one with the lights in the middle of the night?"

No, Miley. It was not.

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Dolf eyed her. "No," he explained, "That's... all of northern Scandinavia."

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His laugh drained the tension from Rapunzel's shoulders and she bestowed Dolf with a sunny grin. "They should be done in ten minutes or so if you'd like one." Her grin turned a bit impish. "Or two or three."

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"Ohhhhh."

Well, you try remembering every place you went to on your twelve-week tour! It was hard!

"Umm... sorry?"

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Rapunzel giggled, then clapped her hand over her mouth to suppress it. "That's a very generous point of view," she allowed behind a half-hidden grin.

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"It's fine," Dolf replied. He shrugged. "A lot of people over here don't even have a Netherlands."

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"I would," was Dolf's response to all of that.

A beat.

"Um, three. They smell really good."