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Tweak says, "thank you Unsolved Mysteries"

Brigs Mercer ; Mercutio (mercurialman) wrote in musings,
@ 2010-09-20 01:25:00

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[An unsolicited delivery to Aubade #504, a few days after this. The food comes in small black boxes embossed with Centro’s logo and is delivered by a well-dressed young woman. The halls and stairwell are filled with the warm, spicy aroma of ginger.]

Contents:

Apricot ginger muffins
Lime cupcakes with ginger cream cheese frosting
Pumpkin ginger crème caramel
Profiteroles with bourbon-caramelized bananas & ginger ice cream

Linen napkins
China plates
Sparkling water

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thestoryweaver
2010-09-20 05:38 am UTC (link)

[collected from the hall-table in 504 the following day; there is a tip rolled up inside a very old piece of paper money from Russia before the fall of the Tsars tucked under a plate which is pocketed before the tray returns to the kitchen. What is left on the plates is a lot, as is 504's way, but more has been eaten than is usual. The paper scrap is found folded into an origami bird and on the back is a very short description of a forever-silent woman with kisses like knives -- it's half finished, and clearly torn out of a notebook.

Written in that same curious and slanting handwriting -- 'if you are going to be emphatic about it, perhaps another spice. But I do like cake'.

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mercurialman
2010-09-22 05:02 am UTC (link)

[The well-dressed young woman returns the next morning, with a single box on her tray this time. It holds a wedge of simple red velvet cake that will prove to be irresistibly light and fluffy, with lingering notes of dark cocoa and nutmeg.]

Scrawled across the inside of the box in large, dramatic cursive is a message written in bright purple highlighter.
It says, 'Don't thank me too hard. This one was for me.'

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thestoryweaver
2010-09-22 08:29 pm UTC (link)

[When the box returns, the cake has been half-finished -- which might be a slight to a chef if it weren't for the fact this is the least amount sent back since the deliveries began]

The message is folded into a swan of black paper -- the writing is in silver, in the very center. It has to be unfolded to be found.

'If thanks were hard, they would be painful and that wouldn't be thanks at all'.

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