"It's always so hard to get the stuff out," Valkyrie whined, squeezing a tube of red icing. It all came piling out onto the little snowman shaped cookie she was decorating. "Dammit!" she shouted.
"Oh that's fine," Tanith said soothingly. "Just spread it around. It'll have a pretty red dress on."
Valkyrie sighed and took her finger and spread the icing around. She put some on the legs, and the body, and the arms. She took some white sprinkles and put them around the edges.
"See!" Tanith exclaimed. "You made her all pretty!"
Valkyrie smiled and placed the cookie on a separate tray. "Who in the world is that?"
Tanith visibly blushed. "…Ghastly."
"Oooh!" Valkyrie squealed and examined the little snowman cookie closer. He had black eyes and small little black lines on his face. There were green stripes on the body part, like the green suit he wore sometimes.
"Wow," Valkyrie breathed. "That has to be the cutest cookie ever." Tanith giggled and placed the Ghastly cookie on the same tray as Valkyrie had done with her cookies. She took a plain round one and grabbed the yellow icing. She squirted a huge glob of icing at the top and swirled it around in spikes and weird pointed ends. Tanith took the black icing and made two little eyes, and a little smirk for a mouth.
"I call eating the Fletcher cookie!" Valkyrie shouted, happily taking the round cookie and placing it beside the Ghastly cookie. Valkyrie grabbed one of the misshapen snowmen cookies and gave him a hat, frizzy red icing hair, big black sunglasses, and put blue stripes down the body.
"Skulduggery," she murmured, smiling at Tanith's Kenspeckle cookie. Both giggled and sat down to make more of their friends.
*
Skulduggery closed the front door of Gordon's place gracefully. He frowned slightly at the giggling from the kitchen, as neither Tanith, nor Valkyrie ever giggled. He stepped into the kitchen and saw both of them covered in icing. There were cookies lined up on the counters.
"Hi!" Tanith smiled.
"Hello there," he greeted them, still slightly confused. "Why are these ones all on their own?" He pointed to the ones on the counter.
"They're the special ones."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah," Valkyrie grinned, "they're the cookies of all of us."
His head tilted to the side, and he smiled slightly. He examined a cookie with black hair, going down to the waist of the snowman shape.
"Is this you, Valkyrie?" he asked, pointing to the cookie. She nodded.
"I'm sorry, but your hair is not that long."
She sighed and picked the cookie up, scraped some of the icing off on her finger, then wiped it off on Skulduggery's face. "Better?"
He examined the cookie. "Much better."
:D Four more days!