The Disappearing Cookie Act
The delicate snow drifted steadily down from the sky on the cold December day, landing gently on the large windows of the grounded Condor.
Piper was bustling around the kitchen, preparing batch after batch of special Christmas cookies for the holidays.
It would seem that it was a normal pre-Christmas day, but Piper thought that something strange was going on.
She would set down a tray of cookies fresh from the oven, all holiday-shaped, and turn around for one second to check on something for another batch.
That one second where the navigator took her eyes off her baked delicacies was when the odd something always happened.
Piper would return her gaze to her cookie tray once more to transfer them into a bowl, but all that would be left would be a few cookie crumbs.
Just moments before, another unsuspecting cookie tray had been emptied of its cookies behind Piper's back.
"GAH!" she exclaimed. "What the heck is happening to my cookies?!"
So began the mystery of the disappearing cookie act.
The peeved crystal specialist marched into the bridge, which was deficient of Stork, since the Condor needed no piloting. The only ones there were Junko and Finn, both huddled together before the window.
"Guys, have you seen-" Piper stopped short of her sentence when she caught sight of the boys munching on something that looked infuriatingly familiar.
"Finn! Junko!" she barked murderously. "Have you been stealing my cookies?!"
"Um, no?" Finn answered sheepishly, while hurriedly wiping the incriminating cookie crumbs from his face.
So ended the mystery of the disappearing cookie act.
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