RP:The New Baker

Summary: Meri meets the new baker Khitti hired for Ginger Snapped Bakery and Sweetshop -- Scandal.

Ginger Snapped Bakery and Sweetshop

Scandal work at the bakery had been running smoothly. At the front as the servers move back and forth between tables, assisting where customers were desiring refreshment and pastries after pastries. Scandal appeared as he did typically within the powers he was presently able to appear within. He stood about 7' tall and wore a apron around a light blue short sleeved shirt. Draconian in form, black scaled with red flesh running down the bottom of his jaw and down his neck. His red eyes looking between customers coming in the door, with a pleasant greeting of "Hi welcome, to the Ginger Snapped Bakery." The displays of wide variety of treats, from pies to donuts, krispy treats, to milkshakes and malts, candy and salted caramel chocolates, but all falling shadow to a mysterious upside down cone floating 3 inches above the platter, with a deep fried exterior and filling those who got close with the aroma of honey and cinamon. "Order up, welcome to the Sweet Shop, home of the Sweets, what can i get for you today?"

Scandal would come to learn that Meri is a regular at this particular shop. Her sister owns it, after all, so Meri is an avid supporter. Khitti has recently informed her that there is a new baker at the shop. Scandal. This is a name that Meri has heard a time or two before, but the two have never had the chance to introduce themselves to one another formally. Now that he was working at the bakery, Meri was set on changing that -- if only because she was curious to know if he produced sweets as tasty as Khitti's. She could only assume yes, this must be why Khitti hired him. Into the shop she goes, on a day that she knows full well that Scandal will be working. She is pleasantly surprised to find the shop in great order, and she is even greeted upon entrance. Meri is already familiar with most of the items that the bakery has to offer, but there is one thing that Meri hones in on pretty quickly that she has never seen before. What is that floating thing? It smells so good, which triggered the preggo-cravings massively. She forgets her manners entirely, she was here to meet who? And is all but drooling over the deep-friend honey and cinnamon smelling cone. "What is thaaat?"

Scandal followed the customers gaze to the floating cake, and cracked open his toothy jaw, "Heh, that seems to be everyone's great question, my own special dish, made from my homeland, bit a magic helps in the baking of it, and the levitation is just an aftereffect." He smiles. "What we have here is is fine flakey cake light than air, with crystalized interior so that every crystal of sugar is even dispersed throughout the whole of the cake, its exterior as you can see is brown and yet hard, this is from using honey and a bit of rum, to create a uniquely fried appearance but having the texture of finely hardened chocolate. On the inside the cinmaon is finely sprinkled and disperces so that the denser sugar is drawn towards the exterior, and the light her fluffier surround the rich homemade vanilla made ice cream that fills in the middle." he smiles taking some pride in his work, "I replicated from watching a dragon make it, back when i was a wee drake. She nevered named it so I think its best to called it the No-Name-Cone."

Meri looks slightly despondent when she hears that there is rum used somewhere in the mix. The pregnant woman drops her gaze down to her pregnant belly for a moment before sighing, "Well, I guess I will have to wait a couple more months before I am allowed to try that one." Scandal may be in for a bit of a shock with what happens next. The customer he was just speaking with? Well she has the audacity to walk behind the counter, helping herself to a plate and preparing to serve herself her own chocolate muffin. It would be tasty, it would hit the spot, but Meri was still sad there were a bit of rum used in the making of the No-Name-Cone. None of the other staff on duty seems to bat a lash that Meri is doing this. "So you must be Scandal, eh? It's nice to formally meet you. Khitti was telling me about how she hired you. My name is Meri, Khitti's sister. Please don't mind me much, I hate troubling you guys with fetching my orders when there are other customers to tend to. I know my way around just fine." Meri offers the dragon a wink, "Well since the No-Name-Cone is off limits because there is rum in it and I am pregnant, what else have you baked around here today?"

Scandal eyed her as she turned around the counter and came into the back. He didn't stop her, he simply watched, and made quick calculated guess there were three possibilites one, being she was a friend of khitti, two she was a former employee, or three she was a customer who shouldn't be argued with. He eyed the cake a second and then recalled her words. "Um you do understand that when the cone is baked all the alcohol in the rum evaporates right? I am no doctor but, if their's no alcohol and use less than a tablespoon, to get the crystallization, you won't taste the rum, and certainly not the alcohol." He paused as she helped herself to a chocolate muffin. "Yes, thats right." He paused to help another customer and then turned back to her. 'Yeah its Scandal, very nice to meet you," The confirmation of her knowing khitti confirms his first theory and he doesn't pay her mind being in the kitchen. "Well if you don't want to risk it, even when there is no risk, I have a few things, I have deep fried donuts, sticky buns, little cream filled buns, slices of pie, bakliva with five choices of nuts, I also have some healthy choices egg corscantz, kolaches, or this." He opens the door to the kitchen revealing another strange item where the icing seems to be drizzling out of a floating cylinder shaped cake that was dark brown with chocolate and almost a foot tall, the icing would flow to the bottom and instead of dripping off, seemed to flow right back up to the top of the cake with and back over again. "New thing, experienmenting today, like a perpetual lava cake." "Meri, you khitti and everyone i meet seems to have such nice names." he said before getting the next customer their order. Smiling at the now lull in the day, as customers stopped coming in, it would get busy again, in an hour.

Meri regards Scandal with a dumbfounded look. Meri looks sincerely surprised to hear this detail, the alcohol is cooked out? As Meri is really not the most skilled chef, or baker, this is a major newsflash for her. It's a good thing she has not actually plucked that chocolate muffin out yet. She had almost gotten there, but not quite. "Oh. No, I did not know that. Well, can I have one of those No-Name-Cones then?" Meri takes a second to look out the window, gauging the time of day and rethinking if she will actually be able to sit and enjoy the tasty treat. "For the road?" Since the cone was levitating, Meri was a bit more skeptical about just helping herself to a serving. She would actually enlist Scandal's help for that -- the rest of the more ordinary stuff though? She would normally serve herself. "I should probably bring it home to Cal, my fiance. He might be remiss if I did not let him try out the new baker's handiwork." Even though Meri is asking for a No-Name-Cone, her pregnant belly is getting the better of herself. She wants the cake too. 'No' was simply a word she was struggling with when it came to sweets in her diet but she managed it. Barely. If only because she would be back another day. "Ugh, that cake looks delicious. I think I am going to have to come back in a few days for that one. I don't know if I can escort both orders safely home..." Because Meri would not just want a piece of cake, she would want the entire thing to come with her. "Khitti told me that you were quite creative, I must say that I am impressed Scandal."

Scandal smiles at her compliments, "I have a few of the cakes in the back, more fresh," he winks. Entering the back room, he retrieves the cake from the back, and carefully places a to go box around it and closes the bottom lid, around it, and then waits a second for it to be reaquanited with its new floor, and then places the box by her. "Just open from the bottom rest the cake for a second on the surface and pull the box upward, it won't damage it, though, when you cut be careful, when it splits the magic ends, and it flops down. Might want a large platter. " He chuckles.. "I am happy to impress you." he said. He paused a moment and then asked. "If I may I um, I love kids, might i he motioned to her belly." If she granted him his request he would kneel and lean his head against it, "And what treat will you want, little one." He would say with the daddy desire of person who wanted to be a father. If she didn't allow it he would shrug and smile.

While Scandal is in the back, Meri is paying for and leaving a good tip. She might be family to Khitti, but she was never one to assume that what she got here would be for free. She did not want to take total advantage of her sister's business. The box is set next to her and before Meri picks it up to depart, it would seem that Scandal has one more request. He loved kids? And was motioning to her belly? Meri was surprised by this request, if only it was a first, but Meri did not see the harm so she nodded okay. She was not fully expecting him to kneel, and put an ear to her belly to give it a listen. Yet she is familiar enough with Scandal to know that he means no harm, so she lets him, for an appropriate length of time. She did not pull away so fast that Scandal might be offended, yet did not linger long enough to give the staff something to gossip about. "One day, I am sure," she says, perhaps picking up on Scandal's daddy want. "Anyway, it was good meeting you Scandal. I am going to take this home, good luck with the rest of your shift. I imagine it is extra busy with Yule orders." Meri plucks the box up, gives a wave to Scandal and then slips out the door.