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It was amazing. Terror cannot actually stand up to a full bladder. I was about to be hauled up on murder charges, and all I could think about was oh god I have to go so baaaaad鈥
mood
I don鈥檛 know how much blood costs out here, come to think of it鈥攚e don鈥檛 use it much in baking鈥攂ut
Much????
鈥淓x-excuse me鈥?鈥 I said stupidly, as if I鈥檇 caught him manhandling the baguettes or trying to open the bakery case. Not trying to stab me. Trying to stab me probably deserved something other than 鈥渆xcuse me鈥 but my mind didn鈥檛 seem to be working.
One ran into the gingerbread man鈥檚 card house and got thrown out the window. My cookie had a temper.
It鈥檚 kind of sad when you鈥檝e got an evil wizard tied up at your feet, a dead man in the next room, the monarch of the kingdom pacing the floor and you鈥檙e waiting to instigate a coup that will throw out a traitor to the kingdom鈥nd you realize you鈥檙e bored.
I dropped the scone into Bob鈥檚 bucket. He glopped happily over it. I think that might have been cannibalism.
If you have ever prepared for a siege in two days, then you know what the next few days were like. If you haven鈥檛, then you probably don鈥檛. Well鈥 big formal wedding is about the same (and because we do cakes, I鈥檝e been on the periphery of a few), except that if things go wrong in a siege you鈥檒l all die horribly, and in formal weddings, the stakes are much higher. We had a bride threaten to set the bakery on fire once when her buttercream frosting came out the wrong color.
There was something stuck in his teeth. Here I was about to die, stabbed to death by a deranged wizard, and that was what I noticed鈥攖here was something green stuck in his teeth.
And because I was really going to die, right this minute, and it didn鈥檛 much matter anymore, I said, 鈥淵ou鈥檝e got something stuck in your teeth.鈥 He blinked. I guess this is not the sort of thing that people say when you鈥檙e about to stab them. 鈥淲hat?鈥 鈥淚n your teeth. Um. Sort of green鈥斺 鈥淲hat is wrong with you?鈥
