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Walking up to the innkeeper Pure Vanilla can’t help his surprise at the fact the inn was bustling with so many cookies despite the fact that they were in Shadow Milk’s domain, though perhaps that is just the nature of cookies, being able to survive even in the harshest conditions.
After a bit of talking with the kind innkeeper she had pointed there little group to go sit at a large table that was currently occupied by two cookies.
Walking closer to the two cookies he notices how out of place the two look, the first one was wearing black robes with gold embroidery and the cookies hood cloaking the upper half of there face, the lower half of the cookies face was a similar golden brown color to Pure Vanilla’s own, though the other cookies face was set in hard neutral, and while the cookies appearance was certainly odd the cookies companion who sat opposite of the hooded cookie was far odder. The cookie had flowing blue hair, even if there was no inn wind in the inn, which seemed to reflect a moonless night sky, they wore a non-see-through black vail that similarly to there companion covered the upper half of there face, though the lower half of there face was a familiar blue, uncomfortable so, but he had to remind him that this cookie wasn’t Shadow Milk, the Light of Truth would have alerted him if it were Shadow Milk, plus it is rude of him to judge another cookie by there appearance, the cookie, he will need to ask for there names and preferred pronouns this was getting ridiculous even for him, also wore black robes but instead of the gold embroidery they were instead sporting an elegant desaturated purple embroidery.
Finaly standing next to the table the two cookies were at he noticed the second cookie was softly humming a song that he did not recognize, suddenly the melody cut off and the second cookie shifted there head to look at his group.
”Hello” the second cookie said softly, there voice sounding feminine, for some reason there seemed to be tension in the air…
”Woah, miss, your hair is so beautiful!” GingerBrave says, cuting through the tension as if it had never been there and unleashing a torrent of questions from none other than Wizard no less.
”How did you get your hair to be like that? Where you created like that? Or did you make it like that? If so how? Also what’s with the vail? Can you even see through it? Also-“ Wizard asks shooting questions after questions at the poor cookie and not even letting her answer before shooting off another question, it’s only with Strawberry gently poking Wizards face that he finally stops asking his questions
“Wizard, I know you’re excited but maybe you should let her answer your first question before asking another?” Strawberry suggests
“I-I am not ‘excited’ Strawberry” Wizard says spluttering “I am merely curious!” Wizard says with a huff
“Hahahaha!” The second cookie, he really needs to ask for her name, laughs at there antics, even the first cookie has a ghost of a smile playing on there lips
”Hey! What are you laughing at!” Wizard shouts, with an eyebrow twitching
After laughing for a few more seconds the cookie finally composes herself enough to say “Heh, sorry, sorry”
”Hmph, fine, apologies accepted I suppose, now what is your now?” Wizard says, then immediately goes back to his question, sigh, at lest he is not bombarding her with questions again
Though perhaps that was a bad question to ask because the smile on the cookies face immediately drops “Aren’t you you supposed to introduce yourself first?” She asks lips pressed into a line
”O-oh right” Wizard says a tad sheepishly “My name is Wizard” Wizard says with a huff “Now yours?” He questions, Pure Vanilla should probably stop to this, the girl? Woman? He can’t tell, but she looks uncomfortable and he doesn’t feel as if they have the right to ask if it makes her feel uncomfortable
Out of the corner of his eye he can see the first cookie slowly begin to rise up from were he was sitting-
Suddenly the veiled cookies hand shots out and stops the first cookie in there tracks “It’s fine Re-re” the veiled cookie says, and she must have surprised the first cookie because he sits back down with a mumble of “Re-re?” Seeming to question, what he could assume to be, the nickname
The veiled cookie finally retracts her hand and turns back to them “You can call me Extract” she says but her lips are pressed into line and after a second she says “It fits well enough anyway” Extract says softly, so softly in fact that he doubts he was meant to hear it
”Extract, huh” Wizard says, cutting through the tension like his lightning bolts would through the sky “That’s a weird name, and what kind of name is Re-re?” Wizard asks bluntly, maybe even a bit to bluntly
Suddenly a smile is back on Extracts face as she says “If that is your argument then what kind of name is Wizard?” “Hey-!” But I digress, Re-re is just a nickname I gave him” Extract says with a wink
”Now, will you answer my questions?” Wizard says his brow twitching and looking just about feed up with Extract
“Uhhh, Wizard?” Strawberrie says nervously “Maybe you should give her the option to not answer your questions?”
“But-!” Wizard says, almost yelling, before being cut off “It’s fine cutie” Extract says to strawberry, who then hides her face in her hands, laughing lightly she turns to Wizard and says “As for your questions, Yes I was created this way” He doesn’t know why but the way Extract used the word created had set off alarm bells in his head, most cookies were born from two cookies, the ancients were as well, but there were a small amount of cookies that were directly created from the Witch’s hand, like the beasts, but he didn’t want to assume, plus the ginger trio were also created by witches, maybe it was just a quirk of hers, and besides, the chances were very small “And for your question you had about my veil-” She says, before cutting herself off “-well let’s just say I can see you just fine”
That just garnered a huff from Wizard, but he ultimately stayed quiet
“Hey! What do you two do?” GingerBrave asks
“What we do?” Extract says, and though they couldn’t see her face it was obvious she was amused
“Yea! Like what’s your guy’s job?”GingerBrave asks curiously
“Well, I don’t particularly have a ‘job’ but I suppose you can consider me a wandering scholar” Extract says