Piepocalypse

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Miss Shellie was a particular woman, that much she knew.

For one thing, her magic focused specifically on culinary arts and the like, and beyond that she was barely average at anything. Food-based magic was here bread and butter, pun intended, and it helped her to deal with stressful situations. One such situation being that she didn't have nearly enough pie in her kitchen. And the only way to rectify that was with more pie.

She stood in her classroom, where instead of desks there were stove and counter tops with cabinets underneath, where Shellie poofed the ingredients for what they were going to make today.

"Hello students!" She said, her voice bubbly and chipper as it always was. "Today we're going to be making light, luscious, levitation lemon pie." As she spoke she gave her wooden spoon a little waggle and the name of the dish appeared on the board behind her in beautifully loopy letters.

Levitation Lemon Pie

"Now," she continued, gesturing to the materials on her desk. At the moment she just had a large bowl and an empty pie tin with a pre-made crust. "Are we ready to make some pie?"
 

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Laetus was floating upside down above his oven desk. Did he... even take this class? He wasn't sure. He simply knew this class involved food, and he could use a pie or twelve today. Laetus rose... lowered? his hand, then spoke before being called on.
"There's no pie in that pie crust. So we don't have everything we need." He pointed out.
 

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Maddie looked at the ingredients on the table. She was better with baking than she was anything else, so that was lucky. She wasn't very confident in her ability to do this in front of people, though. "Define ready," she said under her breath. Maybe the teacher would explain why it had to levitate? And was that different than a normal lemon pie somehow? Maddie was also curious why food had to have magic in or around it? Did that change something? All these questions were hurting her brain.

She had decided to take culinary after promising to help Laetus back a mud cake. It wasn't so much that Maddie was bad at baking, it was more that, she was detrimental to any kitchen environment. Burns, scratches, you name it, and Maddie could get it and usually did.
 

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Shellie tut-tut-tutted at the floating boy's insistence that they didn't have all the ingredients they needed because there was no pie in the crust. "Why, of course there isn't any pie in the crust, darling. We're going to make the pie!"

She gave Maddie a light smile. "Don't worry dear, if there's anything you don't understand, I'm happy to help."

With a wave of her spoon Shellie poofed a few more ingredients on the table. Each desk held a bag of sugar, cornstarch, salt, measuring cups, and a saucepan on their stove tops. Shellie went behind her desk, hovering so her students could still see her.

"First, preheat your ovens to 325 degrees. We want them to be nice and toasty when we put our pie in there." She gave her spoon a little wave, and instructions appeared on the board.

1 [sup]1[/sup]/[sub]4[/sub] cups sugar
[sup]1[/sup]/[sub]3[/sub] cup cornstarch
[sup]1[/sup]/[sub]4[/sub] teaspoon salt
1 [sup]1[/sup]/[sub]4[/sub] cups water

"Now, we're going to take 1 and 1/4 cups of sugar, 1/3 cup of cornstarch, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, and 1 and 1/4 cups of water..." As she spoke, the ingredients she wanted poured themselves into her bowl. She stirred with her wooden spoon, and then slowly poured it into the heated saucepan. "...and then put it on the stove."
 

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Maddie followed Shellie's instructions easily. That wasn't the hard part. The hard part came when Maddie burned herself on the stove while putting the saucepan into it. She yelped, jerking her hand back only after she'd pushed the pan far enough that it wouldn't fall on the floor.

Maddie looked at her finger, glowering. She knew you weren't supposed to stick it in your mouth or anything, but if she were at home, that's what she'd have done. She tried to keep her burn hidden. No need to worry anyone. It didn't hurt that bad.
 

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Laetus nodded. "Ok, magic food lady!" Laetus said with a smile as he set the temperature. He looked over to Maddie often as he began to pour his ingredients. Once everything was measured out, he turned rightside up, beginning to mix them... This was all quickly abandoned when Maddie yelped. He dropped the bowl on the counter and rushed over to her, somehow already with a first aid kit. He almost seemed to expect it to happen.
"Are you ok, Cherry-chan?" He asked, taking her hand.
 

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Alistair payed no attention to the class he was about to raid. He saw the word pie on a sign, and was determined to love himself a slice no matter what. Ciara had him on a diet. More accurately, Ciara was on a diet and was pissing and moaning to Ali and Aed that it was 'so hard' and they had to follow with it. Ali had no intentions of listening at first, but Ciara had eyes everywhere it seemed. Now he was sitting in a hallway chalking up a big round slab that will slip in and check for any unattended foodstuffs. The thing with Gailege alchemy is that it's like abstract art and Electrical engineering. Lines and marks are artistic in appearance, but serve more like wire and circuits. After rigging a disk to fly and pick things up (Ali had no clue how strong to make the force mark, so he may have to settle for scraping filling off the disks bottom), he tossed it in the window above the door and let it attempt it's job. Attempt is the key word. Device style constructs weren't exactly his strongest subject. Especially making them stay up right. Or fly. Or do anything.
 

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Shellie watched her students. She kept an eye on the floating Laetus and the Maddie as they did as she asked and mixed their concoctions into the saucepan. Hearing Maddie yelp, the witch's attention snapped towards her almost instantly. Dealing with fire was common in this class, and she could hear when a student had burned themselves.

However, in her experience, if they burn wasn't painful the best thing to do was run it under cold water and leave it be.

If it didn't hurt, then messing with it would only make it worse.

Her attention trained entirely on Maddie and Laetus, who quickly moved to help her, she didn't even notice the strange alchemical disk entering her classroom. "Are you okay?" She asks. "Did you hurt yourself badly?"
 

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"I'm fine," Maddie said, first to the teacher, then to Laetus. She nodded at Laetus, dedicated as ever. "I've got this Ki--" Maddie's sentence was cut short as a disk flew through the window? Was that supposed to happen? Was that normal? She was distracted enough by it that her gaze was utterly trained on it. "Uh..."

Maddie shook her head, turning back to Laetus. "See," she showed him the burn with a slight smile. It wasn't bad; it didn't even hurt anymore. She was torn as whether to consider Lae's overprotectiveness cute or smothering. She figured if she kept messing up, he'd just take over all her kitchen duties. But she had this. First pie-town, then cake-town.

"Go back to your station," she told Lae. "The pie is in the oven now. Can't do me much harm." Until she took it out...
 

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"Mm..." Laetus nodded and smiled. "If you need a hand, let me know, ok?" He gave her hand a quick kiss before returning to his own cooking. Before long, his pie was also in the oven.
 
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