Fandom Library, Wednesday, January 14th

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The library wasn't as weirdly quiet as it had been last week, for which Arden was grateful for. She didn't know if whatever it had been had run its course, or been thwarted, or something else had happened, but it hadn't happened on her shift, and for that, she was grateful.

As for this week, the castle made of books she passed on her way to the circulation desk? Didn't even rate a mention on the weirdness scale.

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Gray did not have a takeout container with him today when he skived off took a break from his shift at Over Easy to visit Arden. Instead, he had waffle pops. "Okay, I feel like maybe we have strayed too far from the true light of breakfast here, and maybe also from 'waffles,' but they are both cute and delicious, so..."

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"Yeah, there's no pretending those are anything but candy," Arden told him. While gleefully taking a pop, obviously. They were cute and delicious! "But I think breakfast is allowed to be enhanced and evolved."

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"I thought we should just stick a slice of king cake in the waffle iron, but apparently the icing would burn, and no one wants that." Who knew? Not Gray, who was not allowed in the kitchen unsupervised, that was sure!

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From Arden's horrified expression, she knew.

"Absolutely not," she said immediately. And here, all this time, she'd mostly assumed nobody wanted Grey to fall asleep with knives or in a sink of dishes, or near a stove. Apparently not, though. It was worse. "Waffle iron, then icing. Important rule."

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If you weren't ever allowed to use any of those things because of the obvious dangers, how would you learn how not to use them? It was a problem. "Waffle iron, then icing," Gray agreed with a nod. "Got it."

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Now that disaster seemed likely averted, Arden could enjoy her waffle pop without worry. "When is Mardi Gras?" she asked. "I thought it was still a ways away."

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Please hold while Gray finished eating this waffle pop before replying, "Okay, common misconception that I know about because I live with the avatar of Gluttony and he goes on a ramble about this at least once a year. Sometimes a rant. I'm amazed you haven't heard it yet. But Mardi Gras is the end of Carnival? It's the time all of the fun stops because now it's Lent and the Christians deprive themselves or whatever. So it's legal to eat king cake now but then Mardi Gras is the last day and you can't eat it any more. If you believe in dumb Christian rules." Couldn't be Gray!

"I don't know when Mardi Gras is? I think it's one of those holidays that moves around. I'm pretty sure it's on a Tuesday." He was joking, but completely straight-faced.

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"I thiiiiink so?" Arden, who spoke exactly 0 French, agreed. Sorry, Grey, that joke just zoomed right over her head. "I dunno. Othersiders have the goddess and when I was little, I was mostly with Southern Baptists. I know about Mardi Gras because of the spectacle, but anything about it? No clue."

She grabbed another pop. "Except the food is fuckin' baller."