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[vdovy]

[ Yelena stands before a countertop strewn with baking supplies and utensils, her apron stained from various ingredients, looking equal parts annoyed and frustrated as she uses a rolling pin to massage the tension from her forehead. This shouldn't be that hard.

At first, she thought that she could get away with pretending. Her bakery had recently burned to the ground and reconstruction would take time. Now, it's three years ago and the bakery is miraculously intact. There's just one problem... ]

Okay, I have put this off for long enough. Does anyone know how to bake?

Comments

[vdovy]

Hunting is a useful skill. Skinning and roasting your kill is a useful skill. If this next loaf doesn't rise, I am turning the town bakery into a butcher shop.

[ It's an idle threat if only because that sounds like a shitload of work and arson would be easier. Besides, Yelena is only killing time here until some new lead presents itself. Baking has been such a frustrating endeavor that she almost started to lose sight of that.

She looks back into what passes for a screen in her device. ]

So what role did you get?

[westviews]

[She tries not to laugh, but even the breath out sounds amused.]

Governess to the children of the better off. Want to trade?

[It's a half joke. Spending time around children just makes her think of her own, and that's just a slippery slope when it comes to keeping her shit together.]