#lightfallsword ● 09

[fairyknight]

@lightfallsword ● you bake it you buy it

● "Bleh!?" Baobhan's fangs accidentally bit down into her own lip after taking a bite of one of the cookies she'd baked. Fortunately she hadn't drawn blood, but if she had it probably would have tasted better than what she had made. Was it really that surprising? She was a princess, not a baker.

Well she wanted to believe she was good at baking!

"E-Eula! Did you switch my sugar with salt or something? Why aren't these sweet at all!?" Maybe if she'd read the labels a little more closely she wouldn't have accidentally used the wrong one herself.

[fairyknight]

● "Since when was this a game? Baking is life or death!" A new reliance on television for entertainment was to blame for giving the fairy such an interesting slogan to fall back on. Maybe she needed to pull back on the Baking Wars viewings a little bit? She had a bad habit of taking things she saw on TV as reality when she couldn't tell when things were being hammed up for entertainment's sake.

Baobhan Sith waited with bated breath to see what her girlfriend's opinion of her cookies would be. She could have taken what turned out to be an "inevitable" victory as a moment to turn smug, but she ended up blushing with happiness inside. "I-It wouldn't go to my head! You could praise me a little more, couldn't you!?"

"Besides." She moved quickly, sliding in front of Eula so that she was stuck between the fairy and the counter, where she grabbed the counter and pulled herself closer to press up against her partner, and her partner against the counter. "You waged something else on them being good, didn't you?"

"Why, Baobhan Sith, I thought you enjoyed games!" she quips back, that teasing tone still apparent. Baobhan was always so confident when she had the upper hand, but now it was Eula's turn to be smug about it. And unfortunately for the fairy, she intended to ride this out for as long as she could.

As Baobhan presents her finished product, the knight takes a moment to let them sit and inspect it. The presentation is nice, the aroma is good, and she could ignore her reckless disregard for oven mittens, despite wanting to say something.

Servants, she thought. They never paid any mind to what normal humans regarded as essential...

But that's besides the point. After taking a cookie off the platter, she bites into it. And it's...good. Excellent, even, to have been her first foray into baking. "It seems the princess is not so spoiled that she can't whip up a decent batch of cookies after all." Sure, it's a jab at her, but it's all in light fun. "I'd give you more praise, but it'd go right to your head."

[fairyknight]

● "Wicked wiles, you say?" Baobhan teased as she narrowed her eyes and smirked. "I've been accused of a lot worse than playing dirty, you kn- H-Hey!?" Just when she thought she was in control of the situation, Eula effectively pinned her against the counter and hoisted her up. Crap! Her fatal weakness of freezing up when being advanced upon suddenly had been used against her!

"I can't exactly do anything up here", she complained with her gray cheeks painted blush. Not only was that probably the point, but she had nothing to do! "What am I going to do? Look pretty? Well... I guess I'm pretty good at that!" Archer's composure returned little by little as she watched her girlfriend work.

"I imagine you're only setting yourself up for failure, right? Having to look at such a pretty girl sitting on your counter like this? It must be hard on your mental! Hehehe..."

Often, she forgets that Baobhan is much stronger than she is. Strength, dexterity, and just about everything else in between were skills she outranked the knight in by a long shot. She's reminded when she's put at the mercy of the princess's quick reaction in taking control before she has time to do anything.

Eula could only huff as the other leaned against her shoulder. Cute as she was, she was also very distracting...so distracting in fact that Eula hadn't even put her cookies in the oven! Unwilling to admit defeat but also just as equally not wanting to move from her current position, she lets Baobhan have her way. "Distracting the competition by using your wicked wiles...hmph. It's cheating."

"And I have no tolerance for underhanded tactics." Even if it'd been her original idea, how dare Baobhan get ahead of her!? Finally, she moves to pin the other against the counter and lifts Baobhan so that she sits on top. "I demand that you play fair."

[fairyknight]

● Luckily enough for the pair of them, all it took was pouring a few for the Archer to recognize that she had picked up the bag of raisins and not the bag of chocolate chips. She did her best to undo her mistake without Eula noticing, but any attempts at being discreet would probably be picked up upon while she plucked them out of the batter and tossed them into the garbage.

Eula's words gave her an opportunity to try something flirty of her own once she'd put her project into the oven. "Oh? What's that about offering me a hand? Why accept an offer..."

She scooted close and grabbed the knight's hand in her own before she could react. Was she abusing her Servant reflexes? Yup! "When I can just take it!" Followed by a leaning against Eula's shoulder.

Eula knows that that bag is full of raisins, but does she say anything to correct her? Of course, she doesn't. Chin in hand, leaning against the countertop, the knight takes a moment to watch the other before continuing with her own cookies. "Hm...a good choice," It's an earnest compliment, though she can't help but chuckle at Baobhan being cheerful.

"If you need help, I may be able to offer you a hand...for a price." she edges a little bit closer, still propped against the counter. What's a little friendly flirting in between baking? It kept things interesting!

[fairyknight]

● Eula was trying to be accommodating with her again. The Archer had gotten better at acknowledging it. Not just that her girlfriend was going to these lengths, but that she had a bad habit of giving up too easily and taking her up on the offer in the end. She couldn't change plans every time something didn't work out for her. It wasn't fair to Eula, especially if it was something Eula wanted to do. "I-It's fine! I'll just try again! This time it'll be perfect!"

Baobhan Sith also had to consider her pride when it came to things like this. She was very alike with her girlfriend when it came to this particular topic. They could be hardheaded when their pride was on the line. "Urk... Well, I think I can probably manage on my own..."

It wouldn't be Eula's fault if so, but being bossed around tended to get under her skin.

"Besides, I want to bake something that will impress you! If you help me then it won't really be a victory. I'm going to knock your socks off, Eula Lawrence!" A bold declaration. Her pride really was on the line!

Maybe Eula should have figured out as much by now seeing as she was always the one cooking between the two of them. In hindsight, it made sense: she was a princess and had lived her life as such before coming to this city. Plus, she didn't need a regular diet of food, unlike Eula.

Baobhan's self-admittance of being inexperienced lightens the mood, enough to make the usually serious Eula give a half-smile in response. "If this isn't fun for you, we can clean up and try something else. I meant for this to be a good experience for the both of us," she says, wiping her hands on her apron while gathering up the already-made cookies to throw away. It's a shame they'd go to waste, but she didn't think anyone would want salt-filled sweets.

"Unless you'd like a little extra help, which I don't mind. Though I must warn you, I'm said to be quite the taskmaster when it comes to teaching. I won't be letting up just because we happen to be dating." It wouldn't be going according to her exact plan, but she was good at making minor revisions...

[fairyknight]

● It was a pretty standard reaction on the fairy's part to blame someone else for her own obvious mistake. Accountability hadn't been a very common thing in her life before being summoned as a Servant, and even now sometimes she relapsed into it. Eula was quick to call her on it when it happened like in this instance, but it probably didn't help that she'd blamed her specifically.

"I. Uh..." The realization hit her immediately. The usually boisterous and boastful Baobhan Sith fumbled over her own words and made a face that suggested she didn't know what face to make. Before the two had started dating this probably would have ended with an outburst.

But she went quiet for a second instead. She was trying to choose her words more carefully rather than just blurting out the equivalent of a "NUH UH".

"I've never baked before... I didn't have to at the castle, and I just purchased prebaked goods in the city." It extended to her cooking too, which was why she always purchased premade meals when not consuming blood. "S-Sorry... I did it again. Why would you switch my ingredients? You're not out to make me look stupid..." She did it well enough on her own, to be fair.

Thankfully for Baobhan, Eula has plenty of experience when it comes to food. Whether baking, cooking, or outdoor food prep, she could make most of anything with enough care and attention. So, when they had decided to try their hand at one of the stalls, the knight had been all too happy to oblige. For her, it'd be a chance to show off and to include something special! For the fairy princess, however, things didn't seem to be going so smoothly...

"What--how could I switch your sugar? I've been focused on my own half of the counter!" Which, from the looks of it, was much more tidy than the space that belonged to the redhead. Eula took a cookie for herself, eyeing it before giving a courtesy sniff. It smelled salty alright, nothing like how it was supposed to. She couldn't help but sigh, "Honestly...you must be more careful! Have you never baked before? Surely you must have at least made an attempt before now!" Not counting her time as a princess, she'd been in this city long enough to have at least tried, right?