Video | Open to Seelie & Unseelie | backdated to the 11th

[peeta_bread]

[Peeta's found his way to the kitchens, and is currently cooking up a batch of cookies. He stands near the oven, holding his locket so he can talk while he's bored.]

How long has everyone been here? I've only been here a few days, but it's been interesting, to say the least. A little calmer than home. Oh! Hold on.

[He puts on oven mitts and opens the oven, taking out a batch of cookies. He smells them, smiling. He puts it down to let them cool and picks up the locket.]

There's nothing better than fresh-baked cookies. Except maybe fresh-baked bread. If anyone wants any-

[The camera shakes and he makes a surprised noise. A fairy is pulling at his hair, if you can make it out. Peeta grabs a cookie and throws it at the fairy. The fairy falls to the counter with the cookie and stops to sniff it. The fairy actually bites into it, and Peeta turns his locket on the fairy curiously, showing it eating. He turns it back to his face.]

Huh. Interesting. It seems to have calmed down.

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[foreignflight]

--The fairies do that depending on what you do. It's the imps that won't stop. Be careful with them, okay?

[peeta_bread]

Yeah... I will. I've come across the imps but not the fairies being mean.

You be careful, too.

[foreignflight]

I've been trying to. I ran into an imp earlier and tried to do the same thing with a fairy but it didn't work...

[ Which he regrets, but he shakes his head. ]

It seems like you got nice and settled.

[peeta_bread]

Yeah, I guess so. It's not so bad here. At least for now... for me. How about you? What are you up to?

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[kingsdaughter]

Is that what you call those little cakes?

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[peeta_bread]

Yeah! These are sugar cookies. But you can make all kinds. If you're at Caer Scima, you can come try some! Or I can give you the recipe, if you're at Caer Glaem.

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[kingsdaughter]

[Him being at Caer Scima makes her wonder if they'll have poison in them. He's the first Unseelie she's spoken with, and her first real news of the Unseelie came from, well, the Elvenking reporting that his son had been tortured by the Unseelie. So. There's some initial hesitation. But in the end, who knows the rubric used to sort them all?]

I'd...I would. I've never used much sugar in baking, so I wouldn't quite know where to begin.

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[peeta_bread]

[He looks confused at the hesitation.] Did I offend you?

[gardienne]

I've never had a coo-okie before, Sir.

[Eponine licks her lips. They look lovely. She feels in her pocket for the tuppence that Patrick gave her.]

Can I pay for one? Just to try, Sir? Do you live in the castle?

[peeta_bread]

Oh. [He's surprised by a lot of things.] You can call me Peeta. And no need to pay. I live in the Unseelie castle, Caer Scima. You can come on down to the kitchens if you do too.

[Sorry, Eponine :C]

[gardienne]

Isn't that where monsters live?

[Kevin's told her it's a place full of wicked men and women like her. He made it clear that he thinks she should be there.]

Monsieur said that the people where you are are enemies and it is my duty to destroy you. You do not look bad though.

[peeta_bread]

Where... monsters live?

[He looks absolutely horrified.]

No, that's wrong. I... I'm good. So are the people here that I've met.

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[zingers]

[ practically beaming. ] I always knew the way to the heart was straight through the stomach. Nice work, man.

[ now if only he, too, could have a cookie. ]

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[peeta_bread]

[He's beaming now, too.] Thanks. Honestly, I feel bad for throwing something at it. But I'm glad it calmed down.

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[zingers]

There are way worse things to have thrown at you, in my experience. I think you can be forgiven.

[trashkind]

... I have to admit, I never would have thought of that as a way of distracting fairies.

[peeta_bread]

I didn't either. Pretty cool, though.

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[tensed]

[ he doesn't bother replying over the locket. not when food is involved and, whatever his opinions of peeta himself, gale can't deny he's an excellent baker. ]

Those for everyone?

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[peeta_bread]

[He looks up from studying a fairy.] Huh? Oh... yeah, of course.

[There's four missing from the batch, and four happy fairies munching away on those four cookies.]

[tensed]

Even for me?

[ not waiting for an answer, he snags two cookies when he's close enough. ]

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[aphrodisiacs]

[ absently, she says, ] Think it's been two months. [ she shrugs. not that she keeps track. why bother, when all she'll return to is a hole in the ground when the monarchs of the unseelie deem her unnecessarily useless within their war? ] Complete shit hole, though. [ but she supposes anything is better than home where you have no place. either way, the melancholy feeling settling upon her dissipates at the flicker of the fairy from his locket. fairy, not imp. ] Guess you're on the glowing side with those cookies, yeah?

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[peeta_bread]

I don't think it's... bad. It's actually kind of nice.

[Is he naive? He doesn't know, but it's been better than home.] The glowing side?

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[oursavinggrace]

What about brownies?

[he has a weakness after all, and it is chocolatey baked goods.]

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[peeta_bread]

Can I make brownies? Yes, I can.

[He grins.] Are you Unseelie?

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[oursavinggrace]

[his face goes from puppylike excitement to disappointment so fast it's actually comical.]

Uh, no. Is that a problem?