auroraexpress | (no subject)

Considering the pattern I've seen on the train?

It'll probably be smart to make sure people know the option is on the table.

[you're a strangely good guy Dusk and it's taking a few days but he's slowly getting used to it]

Actually. . .

Now that I think about it, I may have one request.

[Gotta slowly build up to being a complete asshole.]

Yeah?

[NOBODY WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THAT ABOUT FACE]

Read me a bedtime story tonight.

[no]

[He is gonna break so many hearts. Everyone will know Aoko's pain.]

Sure.

[Don't think he won't.]

And make me bedtime cookies and a bedtime glass of milk.

[u know what, he totally expects Dusk to do this, so like. gonna milk it for all that he can]

[He absolutely will. He's been meaning to figure out if he xan cook.]

All right. [Getting up and pulling out his chain to make an order.]

[Since bedtime isn't long away.]

[JUST. . . HUFFS A LAUGH]

Is there any request you'd turn down?

Yeah, probably.

But I mean, I don't know if I can cook. So who knows what the next hour will be.

Don't burn down our kitchen.

-- the train's kitchen. Clover needs a kitchen.

I'm not gonna burn it down. There's a difference between bad at cooking and bad at fire safety.

Sometimes bad at cooking can translate into bad at fire safety, if you add oil to a hot pan instead of a cold one.

Don't put water on a grease fire. Putting the oven to two thousand degrees instead of four hundred is not advised for faster cooking. Also cookies don't need oil in a pan?

Does an oven even go up to two thousand degrees?

....

[One moment. Gonna test how high the oven goes.]

[Then back down to what he thinks is for cookies.]

It goes up to 550. Probably for the best.

Definitely for the best.

[what kind of fool would set an oven at 2000 degrees and burn down the train Twilight doesn't know, but. he believes it could happen]

[Neither does Dusk, he just knows in his soul not only would someone alter an oven to do so and then do it.]

I'm going to pick up the ingredients. Want to stay here or head back?

[MAD COOKING SCIENTISTS]

I'll come with you.

[since Dusk is so intent on seeing the request through, Twilight feels assisting with the grocery shopping is the least he could do]

Okay.

[Off to Clover for cookie ingredients and see if he xan cook! What can do wrong?]

[so many things can go wrong, but let's just hope that they do not. SURELY DUSK'S COOKING SKILLS ARE NOT THAT BAD]

[They are not.]

[May take a few burnt test cookies to figure out the exact ratios for ingredients though.]

[well, that's okay. Twilight's gonna help him bake them too!!]

[because he can]

[Cookie making time!]

[Dusk is surprisingly adept at moving around people in small spaces, Caboose has a tendency to get under foot.]

[So one mess later, probably went okay.]

[ONE MESS LATER: COOKIES!!]

[Twilight is totally snatching one before it cools, hissing a little as it burns his fingers]

You could wait two minutes, you know.