fandomtownies | Jeff, God of Biscuits

Liir showed up exactly on time, not one minute before or after 12:00. It was a habit he'd picked up from Elphaba's moods, which seemed to work for him and so he had little reason to change it. It took him a moment to find Teddy but then he was trotting over, Karal's borrowed cloak around his shoulders.

Diverting his attention from some overly complicated cake with a French name, Teddy turned and grinned. "Found the place alright?"

"I saw it yesterday, but I didn't want to get here early in case."

In case of what, who knew.

He peered past Teddy at the overly complicated cake (that reminded him of Glinda, really) before turning back to him.

"So."

"So!" Teddy was just far too chipper about sugar treats. "What looks good to you?"

He looked past Teddy again for half a second before shaking his head.

"You'd probably be the best to pick. I wouldn't have the first idea."

"Um..." He looked over the display. "How about some of the chocolate muffins. And the scones-- do you like blueberries?"

"I wouldn't know," he admitted. "We didn't get much fruit. Usually root vegetables, game meat, and flour."

Nodding, Teddy ordered the blueberry ones as well. "Wait till you try ice cream then. You'll love it!"

Sugar, fat and cream. What wasn't to love?

Maybe then he wouldn't be so gangly.

"I'll have to see," he said mildly, still a little disturbed by all of this. He was pretty sure that Teddy was--

Well, a friend. If that was possible.

"You will." Because the day people didn't... well the world would end. It was nit liking chocolate!

Speaking of which, the helpful ~~NPC~~ cashier handed over the first few items Teddy had asked for. Which he promptly gave to Liir to see if you liked any.

Liir looked at the assortment of goodies.

"Should we sit?"

Teddy nodded, picking up the rest of the food and heading for the nearest table. "You know, a lot of people are from places without some of this stuff."

"I could say that of my world," he agreed with a smile. "Though I'm familiar enough with the smells, so I think it exists. It's just expensive."

"To be honest, my mom never really let me have any of this stuff before I came here," Teddy admitted, snagging one of the plain scones to nibble on.

"We just never had any of it," he said. "We had to rely on what people brought at Kiamo Ko, and then there just wasn't anything in the Emerald City."

"What's it like?" Teddy asked, pushing one of the chocolate muffins toward him. "Your home?"

"My home, or my world?" he questioned, stalling as he looked over the choice of muffins. The brown one was probably burned, but it smelled very good, so he took that one.

"Either, both." Teddy ducked his head sheepishly. "Where I'm from is pretty similar to this place."

"There's a lot less tick-tockishness," he said. He realized he needed to clarify.

"Less machines.

"I don't really have a home, and I don't know how I'd describe my world. There's the Quadling country to the South, which is mostly swamp. The Vinkus, where I used to live, is to the West and it's mostly grasslands. To the East is Munchkinland, which is just making it's way back as part of Oz after a secessionists movement."

By someone who might very well be my aunt.

"And Gilikin, farm country, to the North. In the center is the Emerald City, the capital where Lady Glinda rules for the moment, and just above that is Shiz, the great university."

He shook his head.

"There's not much else. There're deserts around the whole country cutting us off. If you believe the Lurlinists, then it was Lurline's wish that we be cut off from the rest of everything. I don't know if that's true."

A pause.

"And we have Animals, which are animals who can speak and think like humans do. The rest, I've heard of things, but I couldn't say if it's real. The Witch had magic, anyway, but... even that I couldn't say."

Listening intently, Teddy picked at one of the blueberry muffins before eating some after Liir was finished. "Is it nice there, at least?" he winced, stupid question based on how Liir had reacted to some things. "I mean, I know most places have bad points, but... you know."

"It's very... attractive-looking," he said after a moment. For some reason, he didn't want to lie to Teddy, not even a comfortable lie.

Nodding in understanding, Teddy nibbled on more of the blueberry muffin. New York could be like that too at times. Then brightened suddenly. "I should show you New York, that's where I'm from. it's dirty and noisy and people are usually kinda angry, but it's home."

"Perhaps," he said, which was more than he would have for just about anyone else. "It sounds familiar enough."

"It'd be fun!"

Hopefully no one would invade if they went. Because that wouldn't end well.

"Do you like it?" Teddy asked, nodding toward the muffin.

He looked down at the muffin to realize he'd mostly been making the edges into crumbs. Then, with a cautious twitch, he broke off a sizable piece and put it in his mouth.

...later in his life, he might try alcohol and find that it has a profound effect on him even in small quantities. It seemed that the Universe, in Her supreme wisdom, had decided that this should be balanced with the sort of profound effect chocolate could produce.

As it was, the green eyes widened sharply before fluttering closed and a look like nothing that'd ever stolen across his features settled on his face.

He totally should have tried the little center sections in Miss Lulu's cookies. Totally. To. Tal. Ly.

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