This is a different kind of fun
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ZZZZzzzzZZZZ is how I’m feeling during this work meeting.
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READ the instructions at the top. They’re put there for a reason.
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“If it wouldn’t be too much trouble. I’m afraid this one has cooled off a bit, I think there’s some ice around the edges.”
Sandstone smiled at her joke. “No trouble at all.” He returned shortly, not only with the coffee and tea but with a small tray filled with pastries. He filled her cup and waved her toward the pastry.
“Thank you, but I’ve already eaten,” Oceanvine demurred.
“Try one of these small ones,” he insisted. “They may not look like much but they’re very special, you aren’t likely to have tried one before. The pastry chef is new here from Sahren.”
Oceanvine picked up the small spherical piece of pastry. Sandstone was right it didn’t look like much; there was no frosting or other outward form of decoration, but when she bit into it her mouth was filled with a taste burst of fresh berries. Looking at the uneaten portion she saw the filling was a clear, red jelly-like substance.
“It’s utterly delicious!” she exclaimed.
“The chef is a master of the craft. He generally makes several different flavors in each batch. Some of them are filled with custard like a creampuff, some are vanilla. My favorites are the chocolate creams, but the various fruits are always quite good as well. So far I’ve tasted nearly two dozen different fillings - all excellent.”
“I’m sorry I passed them up earlier,” Oceanvine told him. “I also don’t believe I’ve had the opportunity to really thank you for your recommendation to the University.”
Sandstone chuckled. “I’m not sure it was so much a recommendation as putting the fear of Gran into the old dean.”
“Still, that is a recommendation of a sort, a strong one considering. Uh, the old dean? Did Frostglow retire?”
“He didn’t jump,” Sandstone assured her. “He was pushed, and I helped. Two years after you were here a group of students and faculty came forward to accuse him of attempting to fix the scores in the entry exams, mostly against female applicants.”
“I’m not surprised,” Oceanvine said acidly, “Although that faculty members would denounce him…”
“He wasn’t the most popular dean in University history,” Sandstone commented dryly. “Not by a long shot and you demonstrated to young Quartzvein that women at the University was an idea whose time had come. He recruited two other teachers to his cause, one of the students told me he had met you.”…
Also, Hi @mareli83
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Come one come all, it’s tickle Tuesday
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Slow mode!
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A mongering we will go a mongering we will go hi ho a woot-ie-o a mongering we will go
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This is not a post.
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Hello mongerers!
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Hello!
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This is my first time mongering. Show me the ways.
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And we are off…sort of!
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